# Internet April Fool's Roundup **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2011, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739 "2011-04-01T07:39:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/1 "2011-04-01T07:39:21Z")
So far it’s 1996 on [Hulu](http://www.hulu.com/) and 1911 on [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/). What other April foolery is going down today on the intertubes? ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/2 "2011-04-01T07:44:35Z")
I don’t see anything wierd on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/3 "2011-04-01T07:47:21Z")
Bahahaha the top 5 viral moving pictures of 1911 are hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/4 "2011-04-01T07:50:24Z")
Does it have to be internetty stuff? One of Victoria’s local characters is a Catholic Priest who is a wee bit unconventional. This morning he set up a ‘mobile’ confessional, complete with spray-bottled holy-water, multiple-choice penances, and a clothes-hanger to complete the absolution. 😃 [Father Bob Maguire](http://www.fatherbob.com.au/), for your entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![yastobaal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/258eb7/32.png) [@yastobaal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yastobaal)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/5 "2011-04-01T08:26:14Z")
[xkcd](http://www.xkcd.com/880/) has joined the 3d revolution. Which is pretty sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/6 "2011-04-01T08:27:55Z")
[Google introduces Gmail Motion](http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html) By popular demand, [The Guardian’s live 29-day countdown to the Royal Wedding](http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/by-royal-appointment/2011/apr/01/royal-wedding-live-updates) (for non-Britons, the Guardian is a vaguely centre/left broadsheet with a fairly anti-royal editorial line). [Ronaldo sold to Spain to ease Portugal’s debt crisis](http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/portugal-sells-ronaldo-to-spain-in-8364160m-deal-on-national-debt-2258903.html) (_The Independent_). [Radio Four’s Today programme to be broadcast in 3D radio](http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9442000/9442861.stm) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/7 "2011-04-01T08:30:18Z")
[White House Releases Nuclear Launch Codes Online](http://whitehouse.gov1.info/launch/launch-codes.html) ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/8 "2011-04-01T08:34:07Z")
Godzilla-like creature ”natural phenomenon”, says TEPCO chairman > **[Godzilla-like creature ”natural phenomenon”, says TEPCO chairman | Avant News](http://www.avantnews.com/news/37729-godzilla-like-creature-%E2%80%9Dnatural-phenomenon%E2%80%9D-says-tepco-chairman)** > > Fukushima, Japan, April 22, 2011 – The large, Godzilla-like aquatic creature that has appeared off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, was described by Tokyo Electric Power Co. chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata as a ”purely natural phenomenon” entirely... (My colleague predicted this story yesterday) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/9 "2011-04-01T08:41:15Z")
Hulu’s sucks. It only covers the front page. I know they might not be able to cover everything, but just the front page is a bit boring. Oh, and the YouTube thing is an extra button–it’s not on by default. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/10 "2011-04-01T10:27:07Z")
[Blizzard](http://www.blizzard.com) has one for each their game franchise (Diablo, Warcraft and Starcraft). ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/11 "2011-04-01T10:37:48Z")
All I see on YouTube - besides the viral hits of 1911 video - is a little difference in the logo, and a bar underneath each video saying, “you’re in 1911 mode, click here to go back to normal.” ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/12 "2011-04-01T10:55:11Z")
SDMB has a “happy thoughts” forum ,where 17 mods are modding. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/13 "2011-04-01T11:34:49Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > All I see on YouTube - besides the viral hits of 1911 video - is a little difference in the logo, and a bar underneath each video saying, “you’re in 1911 mode, click here to go back to normal.” What web browser are you using? It works in Firefox 4. There’s supposed to be a button on the bottom of the video that will switch you to 1911 mode, which will start some old fashioned piano music. Upon pushing play again, the video will continue in monochrome, without sound, and with fake film effects, thus producing the feel of watching a silent movie. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/14 "2011-04-01T11:40:40Z")
> [@yastobaal](#): > > [xkcd](http://www.xkcd.com/880/) has joined the 3d revolution. Which is pretty sweet. Awesome. First I thought it was just that one specific strip, but the whole thing must actually dynamically generate the 3D effect, as all strips show up that way! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/15 "2011-04-01T11:40:57Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > What web browser are you using? It works in Firefox 4. There’s supposed to be a button on the bottom of the video that will switch you to 1911 mode, which > > will start some old fashioned piano music. Upon pushing play again, the video will continue in monochrome, without sound, and with fake film effects, thus producing the feel of watching a silent movie. I’m using Pale Moon 3.6.15. I haven’t noticed any performance difference between it and Firefox. Huh, I see it now - it looks like I picked videos that didn’t have that option, like [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfLf4k7fNVU) that was linked from the front page. Other videos that I’ve been checking do have it, but not ones in this guy’s listings. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/16 "2011-04-01T11:41:29Z")
Richard Branson, of [Virgin](http://www.virgin.com/) has apparently ‘Bought Pluto, in order to have it re-instated as a planet’. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![heathen\_earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/13edae/32.png) [@heathen\_earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heathen_earthling)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/17 "2011-04-01T12:03:03Z")
[Science meets the Mokele-Mbembe!](http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2011/04/science_meets_mokele-mbembe.php) ---
**Author:** ![Dinaroozie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Dinaroozie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinaroozie)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/18 "2011-04-01T12:06:47Z")
I liked the one from Blackberry, claiming that they were launching a smart phone called the ‘Dauntless’, which has no screen and would automatically detect and delete unimportant text messages. There was [a pretty good article today in The Age](http://www.theage.com.au/national/jokes-on-you-april-fools-day-too-much-for-senator-20110401-1cona.html) (reasonably respected newspaper down here in Victoria, Australia) about how an outgoing senator had launched a plan to legally ban the telling of lies on April 1st. ---
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/19 "2011-04-01T12:11:19Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > [White House Releases Nuclear Launch Codes Online](http://whitehouse.gov1.info/launch/launch-codes.html) That’s really freakin sweet 😃 And there’s other bits of that site that are good to visit, like the “Secret Service Agent for a Week” one. Personally I would love to hunt eggs in the White House. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739/20 "2011-04-01T12:45:20Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > [White House Releases Nuclear Launch Codes Online](http://whitehouse.gov1.info/launch/launch-codes.html) So, who else tried to blow up France? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-april-fools-roundup/576739.md?page=2)