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April 1, 2008

Top April Fools' joke Web sites

If you stumble on some strange Web sites today, be skeptical.

Top 10 April Fools' Day Joke Web Sites at PC World. Subhead: Normally staid sites and individuals celebrate April 1 with weird, silly, and elaborate hoax pages. Here are our favorite pranks of years past.

The top one hails from those jolly folks at the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) blog:

peta_deer.jpg

A camo-tailed deer slips unseen through the forest primeval, thanks to a new coat of paint supplied by PETA volunteers seeking to protect it from hunters.


More: Wired takes a geekier approach: Anecdotes by year: 10 Best: April Fools' Gags (the Web Is Closing for Spring Cleaning!).


1998 Disney has bought MIT for $6.9 billion. The School of Engineering will be renamed the School of Imagineering and the campus will move to Orlando, according to hackers who altered the MIT homepage.

Bigger: Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes Of All Time at the Museum of Hoaxes.


Biggest:: AprilFoolsDayOnTheWeb.com has 423 thumbnails and one-line descriptions of sites going back to 2004. It's accepting your finds of new sites just up today for 2008.

Posted by Sheila Lennon  at 1:35 AM | Permalink

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Great post!

I work for the oldest comedy community on the web. We live for April 1st and have a dedicated prank section on the site http://www.zug.com and new press release. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb807604.htm. There's also a really great feature at http://potw.news.yahoo.com/ It would be great to get your feedback.

Shelah
Marketing Assistant
www.Zug.com

Posted by: Shelah on April 1, 2008 2:15 AM


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