April 1, 2007

April 1, 2007 was an April Fools' Day falling on a Sunday.

In newspapers, magazines and news websites

• BMW: BMW UK traditionally runs an April Fools' newspaper ad;

this year's, in The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph and The Observer announced a new instant messaging technology that allows drivers to display text (in mirror writing) on their windshield to "communicate advice, warnings, helpful driving tips and salutations ... without even lifting a finger".

• Burning Man: The annual festival announced on their website announces that the annual theme will be changed from "The Green Man", a nature related theme, to "Sports", "to celebrate man's relationship to games of skill, and competitive challenges with small round balls".
• BZFlag: The online open source game announced that they would be merging with the game Warzone 2100 and be renamed to WZFlag.
• Christ Church Cathedral, New Zealand: According to a newspaper report, the cathedral was to be pulled down next week due to structural damage, and the site was purchased by a Russian businessman for a hotel and aquarium. The office of Dean of Christchurch received numerous phone calls AbOUT the story from concerned locals.
• CNET:
  • CNET News.com carried a number of fake stories, including Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales inviting 100 people to perform cataract surgery on him, and the exile of the Dalai Lama to virtual world Second Life.

• • CNET TV carried a story about the 'top secret' Apple TiVo.
• Counting Crows: Lead singer Adam Duritz announced on his blog that a fight broke out amongst fellow bandmates during a late-night recording session resulting in two members leaving the group. He also said that this will be the band's final album and thanked fans for their support over the years.
• Matt Cutts: Cutts, part of Google's quality group specializing in search engine optimization issues, claimed that his blog had been hacked. Also, CuttsCon, a Cutts-focused convention, was announced.
• Daily Mirror magazine Celebs on Sunday, claimed that Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair was to become a full time actor once he left Number 10 - starting off as Catherine Tate's Nan character's boyfriend.
• Dead fairy hoax: An illusion designer for magicians posted on his website some images illustrating the corpse of an unknown eight-inch creation, which was claimed to be the mummified remains of a fairy. He later sold the fairy on eBay for £280.
• DeviantArt released a news article stating that the Help Desk was going to become a pay-only feature.. Letters in the article were bolded which spelled out "April fools" and some punctuation, when clicked, linked to an image announcing the joke.
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation sent out the "666th Issue" of its EFFector newsletter with articles on the following:
  • Hollywood Stars Present World's Brightest Shiniest Object to Key Senate Committee
  • RIAA to Parents: Pay When They're Toddlers and Save the Bother Later
  • American Travelers' "Risk Assessment" Score to Be Based on Google PageRank
  • NSA to Open Virtual "Black Box" Office in Second Life
  • GoDaddy Admits Error: We Accidentally Protected One of Our Customers
  • YouTube Sues Viacom for Profiting Off Jokes at Its Expense
• eBay added an "Unbelievable Deals!" section to its home page, with the following list of "Top 10 Deals":
  • Cow Licks
  • Flying Carpets
  • Happiness
  • A Clue
  • Your Face on Mt. Rushmore
  • Dream Date
  • Electoral Votes
  • Ocean Front Property in Arizona
  • A Vowel
  • Evaporated Water
• Electronic Gaming Monthly posted an article that the next Kingdom Hearts would be on the Wii and would also feature Mario characters.
• Facebook's News Feeds included the following events:
  • "Introducing LivePoke™! Facebook will dispatch a real live person today to poke a friend of your choice. (offer good for only the first 100 pokers in each network)"
  • "Harry and Voldemort have set their relationship status to 'Mortal Enemies.'"
  • "You are on Facebook, reading your News Feed."
  • "Meredith and McDreamy have changed their relationship status to 'It's Complicated' ... oh wait ... 'In a Relationship' ... oh wait ... 'It's Complicated' again."
  • "Two of your oxen drowned when you tried to ford the river."
  • "Bracket Buster: Ohio State and Florida have mutually agreed on a tie and will not play the championship game."
  • Changing the copyrights from "a Mark Zuckerberg production" to random Facebook employees' names or the user's own.
• FatWallet set all forum posts to "Swedish Chef-speak", and their avatars changed to the Chef.
• Furcadia changed users' avatars' colors to a blue and white mix on the Allegria Island map.
• Gaia Online released a Black Magical Giftbox containing a platinum halo which, when attached to the user's avatar, exploded.
• GameFAQs's Poll of the Day asks for the best game ever; the catch being that the choices are all games that are considered the worst ever.
• Gizmodo posted a series of posts about aged inventions and passed them off as new gadgets.
• Google announced new services:
  • Gmail Paper, a free paper archiving service for any and all Gmail messages.
  • Google TiSP (beta), free in-home wireless broadband "via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines."
• Guild Wars players had a surprise when their character's genders were switched in the main towns on each in-game continent.1
• Homestar Runner Wiki, and its partner, Homestar Runner Fanstuff Wiki, changed their Main Pages to say that the sites had been closed down. However, clicking on the info link below the message would take you to a page requesting help in the Pledge Drive (a drive that helps the sites keep going).
• I-Mockery changed their site to "I-Froggery" by placing a playable Frogger game that took place on top of their homepage content. Frogger was also replaced with a pickle. 2
• Improv Everywhere announced that they would be changing their name to "Humor In Public Places" due to a legal threat from a 1980s jazz combo.3
• The Independent reported that a "Grow-your-own Viagra craze" was occurring, because the active ingredient could be extracted from winter heath.4
• I Want One of Those advertised several products, such as MP3-playing Ear Phonez5, a RoboGirlfriend6 and a DJ Mobile7 phone with built-in mixing deck.
• The Japan Times reported that the famous landmark/meetingplace statue of Hachikō had been stolen, and that a sister city in France had offered to replace it with a bronze poodle.8
• Leo Laporte announced that his podcast network TWiT was acquired by G49.
• LiveJournal announced a number of new MySpace-like features.10
• MacRumors created a page of past Apple related stories with a twist. The new page is titled, "Mac Rumored."11
• The Mail on Sunday reported 'Council inspectors to demand £5 'carbon offset' for barbecues'. 12
• Memory Alpha changed its front page to appear as a newly setup wiki that attempts to cover all sci-fi (as well as Fraggle Rock and Blossom). Fanon about Ewoks and Furlings were encouraged and the page was formatted using Wikia's Main Page template. In addition the featured article ("September 1st Article of the Day") was changed to a joke-filled user subpage and an image of James T. Kirk having a practical joke played on him (from an Animated Series episode) was prominently displayed. This led to a change in the site notice (We are currently experiencing technical communism. Please stand by ON WHEELS!!!!!!), the addition of a Fraggle Rock page, nominations for featured article status, and a lengthy humorous discussion on the Main Page's discussion page. Most of the changes were reverted prior to Noon, eastern time, on April 1st. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
• MetaFilter's "Ask MetaFilter" featured more absurd questions than normal.19
• MuggleNet posted spoilers from the upcoming novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows.20
• MyBB stated that they were partnering with Microsoft.21
• MySQL hacker Brian Aker announces a Postgres engine for MySQL.22
• NASA posted a picture of the "First Space Quidditch Match" on their Astronomy Picture of the Day website.23
• NationStates announced the creation of the post of "Regional Moderator" to a handful of nations in each region, claiming that they would have the ability to issue warnings to reduce the workload of the real moderators.
• Neopets removed the Battledome and all things related to it (including the battledome neoboard, battledome items and the hidden tower).
• News of the World published an article announcing the introduction of the square dartboard at this year's PDC UK Open Darts. 24
• Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish informed that their new album was titled Faster Harder Nightwish, showing an album cover.25
• The No Homers Club changed its opening page to that of its predecessor website, Evergreen Terrace. The website was renamed the "No Humanz Club".
• The Observer reported that Tony Blair will be taking up acting in a production of The Crucible.26
• Otakon's AMV Contest Department Head posted on the Otakon.com Forums under the guise of "!!!IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!! (please read)" that Otakon 2007's AMV contest was canceled due to legal reasons and that Otakon's lawyer instructed him to not release any details on the reason. 27
• OverClocked ReMix announced28 a new site project called "ReCapitated" composed entirely of remixes to the music from Sonic the Hedgehog 3's Ice Cap Zone 29.
  • The first track from the project was also added to the main site's collection 30. The track, called "Ice Cap Hurts", is actually an earlier remix31 of Sonic the Hedgehog's Marble Zone with the Ice Cap theme mixed in.
• Overclockers Australia changed their regular homepage to a blank white page which stating that the "sauce code hacked by mmx bandits".32 It then redirected to a random web page about cats.
• PC Magazine discussed "10 Revolutionary Technologies" including a helmet for Wii usage and a Wi-Fi toothbrush. 33
• The Pirate Bay announced on their blog that they are moving all their servers to the North Korean embassy in Stockholm.34
• PostgreSQL announces a new major version of the product, the most notable features being dropping support for the SQL language, and replacing the MVCC versioning model (a feature often cited as one of the best features in PostgreSQL) for "simply" acquiring global database locks on read and write. They also announce that Microsoft are to use this version of PostgreSQL in all of its operations. 35
• QuakeCon changed focus from computer gaming to seismology and also adopted a circa-1996 web design.
• The Register reported:
  • Research revealing mislaid megahertz.36
  • Google and Apple are to jointly launch a mobile phone called iD instead of their separate projects. The new phone is to be incapable of making and receiving calls.37
• reddit changed its logo to "redacted" and censors words in the titles and comments of stories.
• RTTP partnered with the navy. All members that enlist generate revenue for the site. Also, all members on the forum were given naval rankings.
• Runescape released in their preview that the month would rotate around the cabbage, including new 'cabbage armour' which would not protect you from rabbits, and a whole new set of cabbage themed spells.
• Ryanair's website has a picture relating to Ryanair space travel, which when click goes to a "GOTCHA" page with an offer of free flights
• Second Life added a series of humorous messages to their teleport loading screens. Examples include “Teleporting to preview of Second Death” and “Loading parameters... Finding destination... Deleting inventory... I mean LOADING inventory...”.
• SGEduLab announced that the website had been sold to CCKEdu Pte Ltd.
• Slashdot added a Digg- or reddit-like rating system to articles, dubbed SlashRating.38
• The chatterbot Spleak posted in a blog entry announcing her "marriage" to her boyfriend. 39
• The Sunday Telegraph ran a story about the organisers of the 2012 Olympics in London considering the possibility of sharing the Olympics with Paris due to lack of funding. Also, in the section where the newspaper normally profiles a well-known figure, the well-known figure of the week was Satan. The newspaper also contained an advert for "ParkUp", a new vehicle technology that allowed cars to park up walls to save urban parking congestion.
• The Sunday Times Travel section reported the launch of Filipino budget airline "QuikAir" which offered "the world's first commuter service" with middle and aisle seats removed to provide standing room on flights.

• StarTrek.com's word of the day was "Sanjaya," after an American Idol contestant. ("san-JIE-ah - noun. Early 21st-century creature of unknown origin, but with mind-altering qualities. Lifespan unknown, possibly immortal.")
• Sven Co-op (a Half-Life mod) announced that its new character, Tor, has been sold to Blizzard Entertainment for use in World of Warcraft, and that Sven Co-op 3.5 project has been handed over to Gearbox Software. 40
• TeamXbox: Microsoft announces their new online service for Xbox Live, called "HOMEless". 41
• TechCrunch announced its acquisition of FuckedCompany.com.42
• Technowax.net announced a £15/mth charge for regular users to browse its forums. .43
• ThinkGeek's front page features many fake items for sale, such as an 8-bit tie, a Wii Remote helmet, and "inhalable caffeine stixs" amongst other items. The page also features an iPhone which they state as they are now shipping. 44 The next day, the 8-bit tie's page listed a message stating that the tie will, in fact, be produced due to the amount of email requests to create one. 45
• Tiny Mix Tapes announced it was hosting a festival in Minnesota. At this festival, long since dissolved indie heartbreakers Neutral Milk Hotel were billed to be "reuniting all over your Cheerios" as the headlining act. Amidst a blog flurry 46, and articles disputing the legitimacy of the event in Billboard 47 and Prefix 48, the festival was revealed as an early April Fools joke later the same day49.
• Turbine, Inc. announced that an update to The Lord of the Rings Online would introduce a new race of hobbit called the Sméorufolc, described as being similar to The Smurfs.
• Uncyclopedia replaced their normal front page with a truthful front page similar to Wikipedia's, linking to semi-related articles. It also claims Wikipedia is a parody of the site, where "vandalism is considered positive".50
• Zombie MMORPG Urban Dead posted fake game events claiming tanks and airstrikes (both out of genre for the game) had passed by while the character was offline.
• UKNova, a UK TV torrents site, posted a notice stating that they need UK Television Licenses to be added in order for continued use of the site, while the license submission form asks intrusive and bizzare questions.
• VG Cats' main page was changed to a Metal Gear-themed MySpace profile, although every link leads to the actual front page.
• Australian broadband site Whirlpool claims new ISP filtering legislation in Australia will block all peer-to-peer traffic from July 1.51
• Wizards of the Coast announced a new licensing partnership with parent company Hasbro in the form of a D&D-themed Monopoly game titled "Monopoly: There and Then." 52 They also announced that their next sourcebook will be titled "Complete Riding Dog" and will focus on mounts, added a new set of wheel-based creatures for D&D Minis, and promised to add a web enhancement allowing bards to employ the triangle, bagpipes, steam calliope, and improv comedy. 53
• World of Warcraft: Blizzard announced a new "Tinfoil Hat" schematic that would be available to World of Warcraft players in-game, attempted to re-launch their old game Warcraft 3 as "Warcraft: Heroes of Azeroth", and announced unreasonable requirements to open an upcoming Black Temple instance. Also, on the official WoW forums, players and Blizzard posters had their avatars and font colors inverted. 54
• Wookieepedia changed its front page to make it appear as if the site had been renamed "Katarnipedia" (in reference to the character Kyle Katarn). Many of the subjects on the main page were also renamed as Kyle Katarn.55 In addition, many major character articles were moved (for example, the article on Luke Skywalker was moved to "Wormie", and the article on Dooku was moved to "Dracula"). The featured article was about Bib Fortuna and the Rise of the Dark Falls, a non-existent Star Wars novel, and was written in an intentionally bad style.
• Internet retailer Woot.com offered its most popular item, Random Crap, for sale at $1,000,001.00 and $5 shipping, which is $1,000,000.00 more than usual, however the "magic word" coupon code, "please" reverted the price back to normal. 56
• Xfire replaced random game data in users' profiles, such as Hello Kitty: Cute World and VirtuaKnitter.
• xkcd announced that the webcomic was now part of the United Features Syndicate and a cleaner version would be featured in newspapers.
• Yahoo! Tech highlighted a number of not so shiny and new gadgets such as the DynTak Motorola brick cell phone, betamax players, black and white TVs, etc.

In websites

• 4chan's administrator, moot, claims on the /b/ board that he is selling 4chan to JList because the users of the site didn't give him enough money.
  • A 4chan spin-off site, 7chan, also pulled off an April Fool's joke by redirecting their site to 4chan for the holiday.
• The Adult Swim Message Boards changed their language filters to change words into other words. For example, the word "anime" changed into "Pineapple Beach" and the words "Adult Swim" turned into the prologue to Canterbury Tales.
• AdventureQuest released an event that was based around the Devourer (a continuing storyline had been going on to prevent its coming) "eating" Lore (the world where the game is set). The player was transported inside the Devourer, battled a seemingly good character (that by many on the forums was considered evil) and was rewarded with a new pet, credits, and a message saying Happy April Fool's Day. The game continued as normal.
• Albino Blacksheep stated that they were acquired by Google for roughly $32 million, and will be renamed Google Animation.
• American Library Association's ALA TechSource blog announced that Google had purchased OCLC and announced new products such as OOOOOOCLC and GoogleLibrary.57
• Archie McPhee announced the release of the 'Stunt Monkey Baby Chute' a fun parachute for junior.58
• Ask.com's CEO released a video announcing that Ask is acquiring searchwithkevin.com, and merging the two services into Ask Kevin, with Kevin Federline as the new CEO. 59
• The BBC's UK website60 announces "New Sniff-Screen Technology" in their regular promotion area.
• Social networking website Bebo lost its "ears" from its logo, and was calling for members to help find them.
• The Best Page in the Universe was replaced with a conspiracy parody about a supposed Titanic coverup, which featured a video titled Unfastened Coins 61, a direct reference to the September 11 conspiracy documentary Loose Change.
• The Civilization Fanatics Center and Apolyton administrators announced that they would merge their two sites into a new one called CivJunction, thus creating what they deemed would be the 77th largest internet forum in existence. The announcement sparked a massive protest on CFC, during which several members jokingly formed an insurgency to oppose the merger and declared independence. A splinter site, called Civ Players Center, was created at Invisionfree as part of the ruse.62
• CollegeHumor changed their website to appear as if the domain name has expired and has been overrun with spammers.
• Dream17, a popular Team 17 fansite, announced that they would be closing down due to pressure from their current hosts, Heart Internet. Heart had previously demanded that Dream17 remove some of their more popular files due to "high bandwidth usage", and this formed the basis for the April Fool's Joke.
• A popular tool for EVE Online, EVEMon, announced a fake version of the program, which blatantly violated the game's End User License Agreement. However, when you click on the download link, an error message would pop-up stating, "We have detected a minor connectivity problem with the initial release of 1.2.0. Please be patient, it will be available shortly." 63
• The US Version of Habbo Hotel had announced, on very short notice, that the marriage of two of its staff members would commence that day. Two days later, the staff member that was supposed to be the bride, Luna, said in an announcement "Hope everyone had an April Fool's Day to remember! I had a wonderful, wedding-free day!" She then proceeded to announce a competition for the best April Fool's Day pranks.
• Locus announced the beatification of Neil Gaiman.64
• MediaPortal have announced that they have been acquired by Sony. Later, in the same day, they announced that part of the development team is going to make a fork, named LinPortal, which will still be open. You can see the fake articles here65.
• The RuneScape website, run by Jagex Ltd, held a news section for a fake day, called "Cabbage Day". A fake quest which involved cabbages, new cabbage armour and weapons and spells was invented and mini-games where told to be held. At the end of April 1, 2007, Cabbage Day would culminate on turning every account's character into a cabbage. After noon, the website runners let everyone in on the joke.
• The SETI Society showed Mars Bunnys swarming near Opportunity rover 66
• StepMania drops support for Windows and Linux Operating Systems due to numerous developers switching to Macintosh computers.
• Square Enix fansite Square Haven reported that videogame music composers Motoi Sakuraba and Hitoshi Sakimoto had announced a merger. The resulting amalgamated life form was named Motoshi Sakriboto. The hoax played off the fact that when rival role-playing game developers Square and Enix merged on April 1, 2003, many believed the news to be an April Fools' joke. 67
• Tech ARP put up two editorials #1 and #2, one with the information of AMD Excellon and RenderX, with Excellon is the first product of AMD Fusion initiative featuring dual-core processor with one of the cores is a "Video Processor Unit" (VPU) of R600-level and RenderX, implementing the Torrenza initiative featuring two Radeon R600 die on a single chip. Another editorial is about a bug that can cause image not rendered properly inside each of the core of the Geforce 8800 GTX and GTS models grahpics cards which results in possible improperly rendered garphics, and is unable to solve until the release of GeForce 8900 GTX.
• Earlier in the week, the legal team for Warner Bros. Records announced that they wanted the primary fansites of popular British band Muse shut down under the threat of legal action due to the fact that they owned the copyrights for the band's name and several song titles. A message was posted on the band's message board on April 1 by Sofia Proll (an anagram of April Fools) who was "representing" the legal team and revealed the hoax declaring that no legal action was being taken by the label against any of the fansites.68
• YTMND changed into YSPACE, a parody of MySpace with the site design changed to resemble Blogger's. 69 All the links except for the bottom link bar (which leads to the actual YTMND front page) link to a nonsensical Flash video singing, "You just fell for the trap!"

On television

• Adult Swim, instead of airing its usual Saturday night anime line-up, aired a new episode of Perfect Hair Forever, followed by the first season of the series shown in reverse order and done in the style of early fansubs complete with the lower generation quality visuals and grammatically incorrect English subtitles. Adult Swim also put what they called "Fan Service Moments" instead of their normal bumps which were shots of fan service from various Adult Swim shows. Adult Swim has also been advertising for several days that they would be airing the entire Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters starting at 10pm Eastern Standard Time on April 1st. They aired the first two minutes of the movie, then the movie was minimized into a very small picture-in-picture at the corner of the television screen while the normal Sunday block played over it. This joke can also been seen as advertising as graphics tell viewers to look at the lower left corner of the screen, Advertisements also appeared during the Sunday block with sound and the release date, All bumps were interrupted with advertisements for Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters.
• On Channel 4's Deal or No Deal, the logo at the start read 'Beard or No Beard' instead of the correct name of the show (referring to the beard of host Noel Edmonds) to much laughter from the studio audience. In the end credits, 'The Banker', usually credited as being played by 'Himself', was credited as 'Titus Aduxas', which when read out loud becomes the phrase 'Tight as a duck's [...]'.
• On Channel 4's T4, presenter Steve Jones interviewed a seven year-old boy from Hollyoaks, asking some improper adult questions. The boy's supposed agent interrupts the interview and in a fit of rage pushes Mr Jones through the back of the set. The child jumps up on his seat and shouts "Fight! Fight! Fight!". A rather flustered co-presenter Miquita Oliver then suggests a cut to the next segment of the show.
• On GSN, the PlayMania block started with a couple minutes of 100 Winners hosted by Shandi Finnessey. The first two callers were asked questions like "What show are you watching right now?" and "What is my name?". Both callers got each question right and $1,000 was hidden behind two doors. The third question, "What day is today?", was answered by someone who said "April Fools Day". After that, they cut to that night's episode of quiznation with Mel Peachey along an email theme of what was the greatest prank you have ever done. The crew, of course, decided to have a little more fun, inserting fake e-mails that concluded in a big "APRIL FOOLS!" graphic. It ended up becoming a guessing game, as Mel guessed whether the e-mails in question were real or a cleverly-disgused April Fools' e-mail from the crew. Mel correctly guessed 13 of the 20 e-mails on the night.
• On Serbian television station B92, Central News aired a report that three political parties had created a new government. This was because after the parliamentary election on January 21, a government still hadn't been created.

On the radio

• In Atlanta, WRAS Album 88's faked a file server crash and a backup feed from a fictious "Radio Düsseldorf".70
• The BBC Radio 4 programme Living World reports that due to global warming, the Vernal Lanternfish (Ludolampanyctus primavrilus) is becoming common in Swannage (sic) on the Dorset coast.
• American Public Media's Marketplace Money profiled a wallet guardian for their weekly "Day in the Worklife" series. Keenan Herscheiser's occupation is described as wallet carrier to an undisclosed businessman ranked 504 on Fortune (magazine)'s Fortune 500.71
• National Public Radio's Weekend EDition Sunday describes a New York City proposal to combat "ring rage" by limiting cell phone users to one of four city-approved ring tones.72
• Following the "Ring Rage" piece, National Public Radio aired a faux sponsorship message from the Soylent Corporation with the tagline "Soylent Green is People".
• National Public Radio's All Things Considered ran a report by Naomi Lewin of member station WGUC about a group named the Indigenous Sculpture Society dedicated to creating art commemorating the name of a town. The group is constructing a giant pair of eyebrows over the highway in Monkeys Eyebrow, Kentucky. 73
• Scottish station Real Radio convinced many listeners that it was Monday rather than Sunday and they had over-slept by 24 hours.
• WNYC's On the Media interviewed Rex Van Ommeran vice-president of the fictional Terror Channel about a new sitcom entitled "Jihad to be There." The program is similar to Hogan's Heroes with actors playing modern day terrorists and is described as a “madcap romp through a [...] training camp, set in the primitive tribal north of Pakistan.” 74

In sport

• Oldham Athletic announced on their website that they were to be deducted points due to a FA charge surrounding the loan signing of Luigi Glombard from Cardiff City.

• Walsall Football Club announced that English Female International Rachel Unitt has signed a deal to become the first female to play in the football league in 2007/08.

• The New Zealand Breakers announced they had signed former NBA star Dennis Rodman for the upcoming season.

Events mistaken as April Fools' Day hoaxes

Genuine events that had been interpreted as April Fools' Day hoaxes included:

• Music publishing giant EMI announced a deal with Apple Inc. in which the entire EMI catalog (except for The Beatles) will be offered on the iTunes Music Store without Apple's FairPlay Digital Rights Management restrictions. 75 Because of the timing of the announcement, an EMI official had to inform the public that this was not an April Fools' Day hoax. 76
• Popular series Red vs. Blue announced the conclusion of the series at 100 episodes
• Nintendo and Sega announced Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games for the Wii and DS - the first game to feature both Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog.
• Sega confirms development of a sequel to the 1996 Sega Saturn game Nights into Dreams..., for Nintendo's Wii console. 77 As with the EMI announcement above, the timing of Sega's announcement, along with the timing of when the rumors popped up, caused some to believe that this was another hoax.7879
• A ball python named Kaiser went loose in Google New York office. 80 It started out as a rumor on a message board and Google later was forced to admit it.

External links

• A long list of supposed 2007 April Fool's
• A trail of 2007 April Fool's

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