An entertaining article from Matt Hamilton at +IBM for Midsize Business. We love this stuff; happy we could help, Matt!
The subject line in the April 1 email from United Computer
Group - an IBM Business Partner - caught our attention: Urgent
News: IBM Discontinues Support for All Tape Drives Effective Immediately!
We should have looked at the date on the message. It was a
playful little April Fools' Day joke that UCG used to remind people that up to
70% of tapes can fail each year.
But the experience did remind us to look up some memorable
April Fools' Day pranks. Unquestionably, the best list is "Top 100 April Fool's Day
Hoaxes of All Time" on MuseumOfHoaxes.com.
Alex Boese has lovingly tended this site since 1997, documenting everything
from 19th century circus hucksters to present-day politicians. Museum of Hoaxes
isn't one of those slapped-together photo blogs. The site actually originated
as a research project for Boese's doctoral dissertation, and the content is
thoroughly researched and carefully written.
In Boese's opinion, The greatest April Fools' Day hoax of
all time was the 1957 Swiss Spaghetti Harvest (right), which fooled so many
people that the respected BBC news show Panorama, which dreamed up the prank,
was flooded with calls from people wondering where they could get their own
spaghetti tree. There's also The Left-Handed Whopper, The collapse of the
Wisconsin State Capitol building, the digital makeover of Big Ben and 96
others.
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