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Megathread: April Fools' Day 2021 on the internet
(Is it really that time again already?) It's already started a little, but over the next day or so, the internet will be filled with jokes, pranks, fake "announcements" from companies, fun...
(Is it really that time again already?)
It's already started a little, but over the next day or so, the internet will be filled with jokes, pranks, fake "announcements" from companies, fun interactive activities, games, and so on. A lot of these can be quite clever and interesting so I think posting about them in general is fine, but in the interest of preventing them from completely taking over Tildes, let's try to keep as many of them restricted to this thread as possible. Ideally, a separate top-level comment for each individual item would be good.
If something particularly discussion-worthy comes up (like an ARG or activity that a lot of people want to talk about), a separate thread is reasonable, but please make sure it has the "april fools day" tag. That way, if anyone wants to avoid seeing the April Fools' Day threads, they can use the topic tag filters and filter that tag out.
I'm going to use the "official" styling for this topic (that's usually only for ~tildes.official topics) to make it stand out more to try to encourage people to notice it. If you notice people making individual topics for April Fools' Day things that don't really warrant their own topic, please (nicely) encourage them to delete and post in here instead.
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Inside a viral website - An account of running istheshipstillstuck.com
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Esperanto, the invented language that found a second life online
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DDOS question/curiosity
Non-comp person here; is there a record for longest period of time a DDOS attack occurred on a website? Would it be possible to forcibly keep a site offline for an extended length of time with a...
Non-comp person here; is there a record for longest period of time a DDOS attack occurred on a website? Would it be possible to forcibly keep a site offline for an extended length of time with a continuous DDOS attack?
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Chrome's address bar will default to HTTPS
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YouTube can now warn creators about copyright issues before videos are posted
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The web's first online bookmark manager
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Wikipedia is finally asking Big Tech to pay up
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A look at search engines with their own indexes
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Tim Berners-Lee: We need social networks where bad things happen less
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The plus-size knitters who are solving an inclusivity problem
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History of 4chan
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The Amazon Assistant browser extension requires extensive permissions, has the capabilities to monitor and manipulate all of its users' web activity, and seems to violate multiple browsers' policies
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Signal's server repo hasn't been updated since April 2020
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The internet doesn't have to be awful
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The small web is beautiful
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History of dunking culture's transformation into the alt right, the reputation of Tumblr
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HTTP is fundamental to modern development. But like any widespread mature standard, it's got some funky skeletons in the closet.
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Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing
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spaceprob.es - A catalog of every currently functioning probe beyond our planet
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Spoonbill—a change-tracker for Twitter bios—offers a glimpse into the unseen effort with which we express our identities online, and how the uncanny feeling of being watched informs our sense of self
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Thoughts on running online communities from the creator of Improbable Island
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Brave has acquired Cliqz and their Tailcat search engine, plans to offer a privacy-oriented search engine
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Visualizing cyber harassment
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Facebook is a global mafia
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Liat Kaplan - "I was 'Your Fave is Problematic'"
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Browser ‘favicons’ can be used as undeletable ‘supercookies’ to track you online
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Visiting another world
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Reddit Search.io
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Mozilla's 2020 Internet Health Report
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Joe Manchin's bid to pierce US tech's shield
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How a dumb hat threw me in a tailspin
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Is the squeeze squoze? GameStop short squeeze
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Cost Plus Drug Company: Low cost versions of high cost generic drugs
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How the Wolf of Wall Street created the internet
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1MB Club - Collection of websites under 1 megabyte
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Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
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The great Wikipedia titty scandal
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US President Joe Biden's Federal Communications Commission appointment is a big step toward net neutrality's return
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Microsoft killed the Zune, but Zune-Heads are still here
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Brave adds IPFS support
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Zalgo Text generator
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Wikipedia turns twenty years old
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Russia may fine citizens who use SpaceX’s Starlink Internet service
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Browservice demo - Browsing modern websites on retro computers
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What I learned in two years of moving government forms online
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BeepBox (an 8-bit music making site)
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I spent a year deleting my address online, then it popped up on Bing
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Nineteen weird things you can watch drop online if you stay home for New Year’s
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