# April Fool's website pranks **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2008, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496 "2008-04-01T06:44:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/1 "2008-04-01T06:44:27Z")
So, just tried clicking on some of the featured videos on Youtube, only to find out that they’re not linking to the right ones. They’re linking to a certain video of a certain man singing “Never gonna give you up…” That’s right. Youtube just Rickrolled pretty much everybody. Think Geek has done its fake product assortment. Something Awful hasn’t done its usual fake page this year apparently - or at least it’s not up yet. What other websites usually have good pranks? ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/2 "2008-04-01T06:47:07Z")
Questionable Content’s Webcomic now shows up with Qwantz’s Dinosaur Comics. So then I went to Quantz’s Dinosaur webcomics, and that showed up as pretty much XKCD’s webpage. So then I had to go to XKCD’s webcomic page to finally read my Questionable Content for the day. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/3 "2008-04-01T06:50:04Z")
[QUOTE=RoOsh] Questionable Content’s Webcomic now shows up with Qwantz’s Dinosaur Comics. So then I went to Quantz’s Dinosaur webcomics, and that showed up as pretty much XKCD’s webpage. So then I had to go to XKCD’s webcomic page to finally read my Questionable Content for the day. [/QUOTE] Oh yeah, I noticed that today too when I went to check Questionable Content at midnight - I was at work, so I had to Google it and thought I’d clicked the wrong link by accident! ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/4 "2008-04-01T07:11:36Z")
How about Google Australia’s new [gDay](http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html)[sup]TM[/sup] technology? ---
**Author:** ![Wallflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Wallflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallflower)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/5 "2008-04-01T10:50:48Z")
Gmail lets you send mail to the past. [Custom Time](http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/6 "2008-04-01T12:29:59Z")
Speaking of Rickrolling, I didn’t realize [Beaker](http://yougotrickrolled.com/) could actually sing. ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/7 "2008-04-01T12:40:24Z")
Well, the [Kingdom of Loathing](http://kingdomofloathing.com) traditionally does something exciting for the day. Today, it’s morphed into the Kingdom of Salad. ---
**Author:** ![dbuzman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/8 "2008-04-01T12:45:45Z")
[Woot!](http://www.woot.com/) has been having repeated Woot Offs of the same item since midnight. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/9 "2008-04-01T12:48:25Z")
Metacafe’s logo was upside down for several hours, but that was last night (before April 1st) and today, it’s back to normal. Bless 'em - they tried. ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/10 "2008-04-01T13:19:40Z")
[Dork Tower](http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/archive.asp?nextform=viewcomic&id=1359) has a… different style today. (Though it started one strip previous.) ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/11 "2008-04-01T13:23:42Z")
And [this one’s](http://xxx.soton.ac.uk/abs/0803.4378) for the astrophysicists… 😃😛 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/12 "2008-04-01T13:40:03Z")
[Google…In…Spaaaaaaaace](http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html)! ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/13 "2008-04-01T15:36:07Z")
[QUOTE=RoOsh] Questionable Content’s Webcomic now shows up with Qwantz’s Dinosaur Comics. So then I went to Quantz’s Dinosaur webcomics, and that showed up as pretty much XKCD’s webpage. So then I had to go to XKCD’s webcomic page to finally read my Questionable Content for the day. [/QUOTE] I just made a similar but permuted journey, as I was looking for xkcd. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/14 "2008-04-01T16:30:04Z")
[rateyourstudents.blogspot.com](http://rateyourstudents.blogspot.com) is DateYourStudents today. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/15 "2008-04-01T16:39:00Z")
The [off-board Mafia site](http://psychopathgame.proboards106.com/index.cgi) has an unbelievably annoying text filter running today. (And [a screenshot](http://www.sirblah.com/misc/annoyingmafiaboardfilter.jpg) for posterity) ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/16 "2008-04-01T16:45:07Z")
Not going to link to it for obvious reasons, but a certain popular site for discussion of the growing and consumption of magic mushrooms reverted back to exactly how it looked in 2000. I stumbled across it via a link from another site. I don’t read the mushroom site anymore, but I sure did back then, so it was really a trip (no pun intended). Of course, I don’t know about the prank value of that. I can’t even imagine how many mushrooms you’d have to take for a website to make you think you’d gone back in time… ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/17 "2008-04-01T17:21:48Z")
Wikipedia did the same thing they did last year, again to great effect- post links on the main page to tidbits about people who share their names with other famous people. Did you know John F. Kennedy was killed by government agents who knew where he was headed and that Ben Affleck died while shoveling snow? It’s true- except they’re not the John F. Kennedy and Ben Affleck you’re thinking of. The Simpsons Archive was [bought out by Google](http://www.snpp.com/)- Simpsons fans should be able to catch the reference in the purchase price. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/18 "2008-04-01T17:40:48Z")
[QUOTE=Dottygumdrop] How about Google Australia’s new [gDay](http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html)[sup]TM[/sup] technology? [/QUOTE] ““This is old news. I read about this announcement yesterday on Google.” Sally, WA” ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/19 "2008-04-01T18:06:09Z")
[The Amazing SpiderBlog](http://amazingspider-blog.blogspot.com/) changed to B. C. (Beyond Comedy) today. Gave me a start. But now I have to remember to listen carefully to ‘All Things Considered’ on NPR this afternoon. They usually have something good. ---
**Author:** ![ThirdCultureKid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@ThirdCultureKid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThirdCultureKid)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/20 "2008-04-01T19:05:35Z")
Jezebel dot com, a feminist, left-wing, anti-“stupid-women’s-magazines” etc etc blog that I read religiously, has been taken over by CondeNet (publishers of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar etc), fired their most popular editors and is engaging in product placement. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496.md?page=2)