*Fuck* April Fools
We interrupt today’s Web-wide spate of mock/faux/ridiculous “news” items to bring you this important announcement: *Fuck* April Fools.
Even under the best of circumstances, April Fools pranks are pretty darn stupid. But in the context of the Web, where foisting bogus content as if it were real is trivially easy, there’s even less of a point to it. Those who post information on the Web should, in my view, be doing whatever they can to lend the medium credibility, rather than doing the opposite, as so many seem compelled to do every year at this time.
As a longtime user of the Web, who has been honing his bullshit detector since the early 1990s in order to successfully navigate its labyrinthine spaces, I find the typical April 1 Web jokes to be not just pointless and unfunny, but actually outright annoying. They’re user-hostile, in the same way that frames and most navigational javascript and the <blink> tag are.
Give it a rest.
April 1st, 2004 at 5:02 pm
Fuckin’ A.
April 1st, 2004 at 5:11 pm
**APRIL FOOLS**
This is JBC, and I love April Fools day!!
See you all next year!
April 1st, 2004 at 7:30 pm
You know, your right. If I want crap, I can turn on the networks.
April 1st, 2004 at 10:26 pm
Idiots; it’s fun and you should see it as that.
April 3rd, 2004 at 5:44 am
1) jbc, you need to lighten up buddy.
2) jbc, you have a point.
False news stories of nuclear war = bad.
“404 error” on visiting a site = good.
It all depends on how tastefully a joke is done. Blanket statements like *Fuck* April Fools make you sound republican. The internet is as much about having fun as it is about effectively spreading media biased to either side. This is the new Television, and I’m sorry to tell you, but a few Comedy Centrals are going to pop in now and then.
The internet is, at its very core and beginings, filled with smart people. Smart people outsmart each-other and trick the stupid people. It’s what we do, and have been doing online since the early 1990’s. I’d expect you of all people to appreciate that.
April 1st, 2005 at 3:48 pm
You know what sucks anyway?
A nuclear war was been declared and most of the world is already destroyed.