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  1. Re:Old technology by TommyBlack · · Score: 1 · on OMG WIRELESS EXTENSION CORDS!!! LOL!!!

    Didn't wireless electricity come out years ago?

  2. Shouldn't they wait for the next Leap Day? by EChris · · Score: 5, Funny · on Operation 'Cyber Storm' Starts Tomorrow

    http://www.april-fools.us/internet-cleaning.htm

    Original Message - 1996

    DO NOT CONNECT TO THE INTERNET FROM 12:01 AM GMT ON FEB. 29 TO 12:01 AM GMT, MARCH 1 !!

    *** *** Attention ***

    It's that time again!

    As many of you know, each leap year the Internet must be shut down for 24 hours in order to allow us to clean it. The cleaning process, which
    eliminates dead email and inactive ftp, www and gopher sites, allows for a better-working and faster Internet.

    This year, the cleaning process will take place from 12:01 a.m. GMT on
    Feb. 29 until 12:01 a.m. GMT on March 1. During that 24-hour period, five powerful Internet-crawling robots situated around the world will search the Internet and delete any data that they find.

    In order to protect your valuable data from deletion we ask that you do the following:

    1. Disconnect all terminals and local area networks from their Internet
    connections.

    2. Shut down all Internet servers, or disconnect them from the Internet.

    3. Disconnect all disks and hardrives from any connections to the Internet.

    4. Refrain from connecting any computer to the Internet in any way.

    We understand the inconvenience that this may cause some Internet
    users, and we apologize. However, we are certain that any
    inconveniences will be more than made up for by the increased speed and efficiency of the Internet, once it has been cleared of electronic flotsam and jetsam. We thank you for your cooperation.

    Kim Dereksen
    Interconnected Network Maintenance staff
    Main branch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Sysops and others: Since the last Internet cleaning, the number of
    Internet users has grown dramatically. Please assist us in alerting
    the public of the upcoming Internet cleaning by posting this message
    where your users will be able to read it. Please pass this message on to
    other sysops and Internet users as well. Thank you.

  3. Re:Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on New Atomic Clock 1000 Times More Accurate

    Been there, done that.

  4. April by GSPatton · · Score: 0 · on Omniscience Protocol
    Well it's 10:50 AM and I'm already tired of these jokes. How about a noontime cease fire on the April fools jokes?

    I understand that in England, tricks can only be played in the morning.

    April Fools History


  5. Spare the chickens...use a chickent hat! by shiwala · · Score: 1 · on British Chicken-Warmed Nuke


    Why couldn't they just order a really big chicken hat to fit around the landmine and spare all those innocent chickens?! It looks much warmer than a real chicken anyway!
    And remember: "A fowl is a terrible thing to waste"

  6. Re:Can I be the first one to state the obvious? by Guppy06 · · Score: 1 · on U.S. Army Warns Microsoft To Back Off

    Reminds me of this bit that came out around the time Pakistan got theirs:

    Microsoft Conducts Nuclear Tests