Neither Clever Nor Amusing
1 Apr, 2004
I've said it before, but two years later it only seems to have gotten worse... I'll say it again:
Posting improbable news headlines, unlikely programming language feature enhancement announcements, and other random garbage on every single newsgroup, bulletin board, weblog, and post/comment web community on the Internet on April first is neither particularly clever, nor amusing.
I blame Google for doing this particularly well a few years back... since then it seems like everyone thinks that posting headlines and seriously-written-yet-tongue-in-cheek articles like "Microsoft buys AOL" or "Python adds GOTO statement" is instant comedy gold, sure to secure them trackback notoriety down through the ages.
It's not. It's not funny, and it's annoying as hell to have the entire Internet turn into one giant source of misinformation in the form of badly-written comedy for 24-48 hours.
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