{"id":499300,"date":"2010-04-01T08:51:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=110054"},"modified":"2010-04-01T08:51:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:51:48","slug":"april-fools-we%e2%80%99re-not-in-google-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/499300","title":{"rendered":"April Fools: We\u2019re Not In Google Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/topeka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"topeka\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/topeka.jpg?w=300&#038;h=202\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-110055\" \/><\/a>Ready your\u00a0skepticism, world. Today is April Fool&#8217;s Day and the web, Twitter and your Facebook pages will likely be littered with hijinks such as <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/different-kind-of-company-name.html\">Google&#8217;s apparent name change to Topeka<\/a> in honor of the Kansas city that changed its name to Google in a bid to win the Google Fiber service. The joke&#8217;s on us, though because it effectively puts <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/02\/10\/google-fiber\/\">Google&#8217;s experimental fiber network<\/a> right back at the front of our minds for yet another day. So share the web&#8217;s best pranks with us today (I&#8217;m enjoying the image of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisnottingham.co.uk\/news\/Ferrets-used-broadband-maintenance-team\/article-1963123-detail\/article.html?\">Virgin Media&#8217;s fiber-fixing ferrets<\/a>) and come back to see what&#8217;s happening in the comments. In the meantime, enjoy the following ones:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/smallhomewood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"smallhomewood\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/smallhomewood.jpg?w=180&#038;h=120\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110068 alignright\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Johns Hopkins <a href=\"http:\/\/jhu.edu\/\">has apparently changed its name<\/a>, losing the &#8220;s&#8221; since it was too hard to get people to use it. From a release announcing the faux change:\u00a0&#8221;We give up,&#8221; university President Ronald J. Daniel said. &#8220;We&#8217;re fighting a losing battle here. And we strongly suspect the extra &#8217;s&#8217; was a typo in the first place.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Verizon decides to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aboutus.vzw.com\/leadership\/executive\/profiles\/Mr_Head.html\">employ\u00a0a crash test dummy<\/a> as an executive.<\/li>\n<li>Introducing the iCade! Turn your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/stuff\/41\/iCade.shtml?icpg=Carousel_iCade_\">iPad into an 80s-style arcade game<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/icade_desk_embed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"icade_desk_embed\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/icade_desk_embed.jpg?w=168&#038;h=132\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"132\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-110074\" \/><\/a>! Offering the ability to turn your &#8220;otherwise useless iPad&#8221; into a &#8220;beautifully retro styled, handcrafted wooden tabletop arcade cabinet and MAME emulator.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And     an innovative glass company has come up with a prescription windshield for race car drivers who need glasses, which I could totally use.<\/p>\n<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"512\" height=\"322\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"AllowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"id=18905620&amp;vid=7250797&amp;lang=en-gb&amp;intl=uk&amp;thumbUrl=http%3A\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/i\/us\/sch\/cn\/video07\/7250797_rndc619762c_19.jpg&amp;embed=1\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/static.video.yahoo.com\/yep\/YV_YEP.swf?ver=2.2.46\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"id=18905620&amp;vid=7250797&amp;lang=en-gb&amp;intl=uk&amp;thumbUrl=http%3A\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/i\/us\/sch\/cn\/video07\/7250797_rndc619762c_19.jpg&amp;embed=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"512\" height=\"322\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/static.video.yahoo.com\/yep\/YV_YEP.swf?ver=2.2.46\" flashvars=\"id=18905620&amp;vid=7250797&amp;lang=en-gb&amp;intl=uk&amp;thumbUrl=http%3A\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/i\/us\/sch\/cn\/video07\/7250797_rndc619762c_19.jpg&amp;embed=1\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/uk.video.yahoo.com\/watch\/7250797\/18905620\">First Prescription Windscreen Launches<\/a> @ <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.video.yahoo.com\">Yahoo! 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The joke&#8217;s on us, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}