April Fool

Once upon a time everyone would be waiting with baited breath for this day to play the meanest pranks with their friends and family and till get away through the April fooling route. But not any more, now it seems almost everyday is a April fool's day and the internet has taken away all the fun of this special day. Everyday the internet is full of hoaxes and as they say a lie repeated 10 times becomes a truth, these hoaxes also develop some kind of believable levels with its ability to perpetrate a large amount of people at a shorter time.

Some of the best April Fool's day hoaxes:

1. Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink:

Consolidating its position at the cutting edge of new media technology, the Guardian today announces that it will become the first newspaper in the world to be published exclusively via Twitter, the sensationally popular social networking service that has transformed online communication.

2. Branson buys Pluto, reinstates as planet

Sir Richard Branson is setting his sights on the final frontier in his latest business venture announced today. In a universal first Sir Richard has revealed that he has bought the former planet of Pluto for an undisclosed sum. As a firm supporter of small businesses Sir Richard is hoping to set an example for struggling entrepreneurs facing setbacks by having Pluto reinstated as an official planet, after its declassification by the International Astronomical Union in 1996. Already at the forefront of space travel with Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard is having a special deep space vehicle built that will help bulk up Pluto to its required planetary mass.

3. Introducing Gmail Motion

In 1874 the QWERTY keyboard was invented. In 1963, the world was introduced to the mouse. Some 50 years later, we’ve seen the advent of microprocessors, high resolution webcams, and spatial tracking technology. But all the while we’ve continued to use outdated technology to interact with devices. Why? This is a question that we’ve been thinking about a lot at Google, and we’re excited to introduce our first attempts at next generation human computer interaction: Gmail Motion. Gmail Motion allows you to control Gmail — composing and replying to messages — using your body.


To end in the words of Mark Twain, "Let us be thankful for fools. If it weren't for them, the rest of us could not succeed".

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