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Archive for the ‘Prank’ Category

Ship Your Enemies Glitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/01

If you’re out of prank ideas: [WayBack] Ship Your Enemies Glitter

Prank your Friends and Enemies. Let us send them some stupid glitter that is guaranteed to go everywhere. You don’t have to move a muscle. Just tell us their address, write a funny note, and leave the rest up to the pros. Prank on Demand!<

Via:

–jeroen

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Geek Prank 😈😂😜 Windows XP Desktop Prank

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/01

Prank your friends by secretly opening this website on their computer while they’re away. Wait for them to return and watch their reaction

[WayBack] Geek Prank 😈😂😜 Windows XP Desktop Prank

There are others too, for instance:

Via: [WayBack] geekprank.com Simulate Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10 and other annoyances in the browser (and switch it to full screen). – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

Edit 20250730: per comments below there is also [Wayback/Archive] Windows XP – Full Screen || Geek Pranks which has two other pranks as well:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Hacker Typer Online | GeekPrank
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Fake Broken Screen Prank || Geek Prank (these images are too low a resolution to be usable)

--jeroen

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Happy “Day of the Programmer”

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/12

Happy debugging, suckers

Happy debugging, suckers

Or maybe not…

(yes, this year it’s not on the 13th of September, but the 12th, guess why…)

--jeroen

via: Day of the Programmer – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

PS: The oldest reference I could find for define true (rand() > 10) was this one from 20121014:

// Happy debugging, suckers
# define true (rand() > 10)

Source: codecrap.com – snippet #6

It reminds me of a 1990s prank I once put in central consts unit of a Turbo Pascal project somewhere way beyond the right margin in a search directory outside of version control:

                                                                                     const True = False; False = not True;

A lot more pranks are at Happy debugging, suckers : ProgrammerHumor – reddit

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Official Gmail Blog: Introducing Gmail Mic Drop – April 1st retracted because of too much of a success

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/01

The Mic Drop button worked so well (besides confusing the heck out of many people, it sometimes even got activated while sending a normal email) that GMail has retracted their April 1st joke.

What a prank (:

Source: Official Gmail Blog: Introducing Gmail Mic Drop

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Many people missed the 8-bit street view at Google Maps Quest on April 1st #1april #april1st

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/04/01

Many people mentioned the April 1st prank by Google: 8-bit maps, and a NES Google Maps cartridge (quote at 0:55: blow on the cartridge to fix bugs ROFL!)

Today Google Maps has a quest mode, rendering the maps in Nintendo NES “quality”.

Few people really used it, and missed the glorious 8-bit streetview, and the really nice landmarks that you see when you zoom in to a scale of 500 meter or better.

You can even link to the 8-bit maps and to the 8-bit street view!.

Click on the images for larger versions (:

--jeroen

    

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