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Top 20 Fools - the best of the best of the April Fools on the net archive.
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After you read these historic jokes,
check out the Special Collections index for the best prank
postings on 6 foolish topics:
RFCs,
Microsoft,
US Government,
Linux,
Usenet,
and virii.
Here they are, democratically (kinda) decided upon, duely authorized
and certified, top 20 fools:
- JPEG Virus Alert - 1994 - 953 votes
(note:
Really folks... this was a hoax about JPG files. But as of September 2004, it seems
the mightly Microsoft corporation has made it
real :)
- Microsoft Bids to Acquire Catholic Church
- 1994 - 738 votes
- Creators admit UNIX, C Hoax
- 1991 - 514 votes
- USSR on Usenet, the infamous 'kremvax' post (and replies
part 1 and
part 2)
- 1984 - 397 votes
- Microsoft Windows for the Macintosh
- 1991 - 115 votes
- Internet Downtime - 1996
(and its counter part Internet Cleaning - 1997)
- 98 votes
- RFC 1149: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
- 1990 - 70 votes
- Linux'95 final release
- 1995 - 64 votes
- CERT Advisory CA-96.13 - Alien/OS Vulnerability
- 1996 - 63 votes
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NASA Headline News: The Congressional Budget Explorer Module (CBEM)
- 1994 - 55 votes
- BMW Introduces It's Newest Innovation: ROAD WARMERS
- 1989 - 51 votes
- 911 Chatline
- 1994 - 47 votes
- BIG.MONEY.FAST
- 1994 - 44 votes
- Siggraph '91 Preliminary Program
- 1991 - 41 votes (This is the webmasters personal favorite)
- Apple Releases New Macintosh Extension:
Caffeine Manager
- 1992 - 34 votes
- Fallwell Ministries takes over TSR, Inc.
- 1994 - 34 votes
- McDonalds and EUnet join to offer Global
"Internet in a Lunchbox"
- 1994 - 24 votes
- FAQ: Top-level international planet domain names
- 1993 - 22 votes
- RFC 748: Telnet Randomly-Lose Option
- 1978 - 20 votes
- TeXhax Digest, Friday, April 1, 1988
- 1988 - 17 votes
- Gene Spafford warns about April Fools on the net
(and replies)
- 1988 - 13 votes
Past Favorites, and those ALMOST getting into the top10 list:
Also: Don't miss the rest of the Special Collections.
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