April 1, 2002

12:44 PM

MIT webpage modified for April Fool's Day.We've seen the Google Pigeon page, and EBay, and even our beloved Mefi (can I say that I actually like this look better?). Have we got a thread which is collecting web page AFD jokes? I didn't see one. If not, perhaps this could serve as a start?
posted by jokeefe (10 comments total)

Whoops, that's the Martha Stewart thread. Apologies; I tend to instinctively skip over any mention of the evil Martha. I'll just slink over there, then.
posted by jokeefe at 12:46 PM on April 1, 2002

nVidia buys AMD!!

(tomshardware.com)
posted by daHIFI at 12:48 PM on April 1, 2002

Microsoft buys Open Directory. Altho that may not be a joke.
posted by zedzebedia at 1:29 PM on April 1, 2002

It's a joke.
posted by sugarfish at 1:36 PM on April 1, 2002

blasphemer...
posted by lotsofno at 2:11 PM on April 1, 2002

filepile showed up backwards (like a mirror image) when i got on it earlier.
posted by catatonic at 2:30 PM on April 1, 2002

That's a pretty weak effort by MIT. If you're going to spoof, you should be spot-on with the details (Like Me4).
posted by smackfu at 3:16 PM on April 1, 2002

That's a pretty weak effort by MIT. Actually, I agree with you, but I thought they got bonus points for changing around the main page for such a major institution.
posted by jokeefe at 6:00 PM on April 1, 2002

MIT changes their main page all the time, and many of them are jokes of one sort or another. It's one of the cooler things about MIT, but it makes it hard for an April Fool's Day joke to really stand out when the every day page is funnier.
posted by rodii at 6:10 PM on April 1, 2002

Met4filter's is the best I've seen so far.

I am a DJ, I am what I play - I've got believers believing me.
posted by Settle at 6:38 PM on April 1, 2002