| April Fools Joke | zkostik | Okay, did anyone get fooled by our parank? Me and D actually took some time to prepare it and of course we didn't tell Barrett so he got a little upset. Not to worry B, everything is good and CG isn't going anywhere. :)
Oh, did anyone actually read possible causes for the "error" page? I know that usually people read one or two bullets from the list to get a general idea and don't read the rest. Lol, Digital didn't read it and was stuck on that dummy page. Anyway, post your comments on the forum and lemme know if you thought it sucked or it actually got you.
Cheers!
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09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 | | 31 Mar 2004, 14:56 GMT |
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 | | April Fools Joke | Barrett | :img01:
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-Barrett A | | 31 Mar 2004, 15:06 GMT |
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| | | April Fools Joke | zkostik | Well, the prank page is now gone and the site is back to normal.In case you missed the prank made by me and Digital, then you can head to THIS page to check it out. I hope nobody got too stressed out coz we're still here and you gotta remember April 1 :).
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09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 | | 31 Mar 2004, 18:16 GMT |
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| | | April Fools Joke | Barrett | sorry Z... you gotta leave it up longer.. take it down tomorrow morning.
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-Barrett A | | 31 Mar 2004, 18:30 GMT |
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| | | April Fools Joke | allynfolksjr | I just got hit with it, but it seemed strange, especially since you guys said you're making money with the ads, so it wasn't a money problem...
Then I saw the page graphics was quite low quality, and then I read the bulleted list, and then saw the link. :-) By the amount of traffic on this forum, the prank seems to work.
edit: I like ticalc's prank, they say they're IPO, lol, it looks like people believed it...
[Edited by allynfolksjr on 01-Apr-04 05:31] | | 31 Mar 2004, 19:13 GMT |
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| | | April Fools Joke | zkostik | alright B, that's fine. it really decreased our traffic a lot, so i thought maybe it's a bit rought on our visitors. i guess most people got fooled by it...our traffic is about 1/5 of its original average. oh well, this is fun :). i'm working from 10am tomorrow, so if you want i can remove it by that time, else i'll only get home by maybe 7pm and can do it at that time. you can of course remove it yourself as well.
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09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 | | 31 Mar 2004, 20:11 GMT |
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| | | April Fools Joke | Drantin | heh.. You guys should have a second layer to get the people smart enough to go past the first layer of defense, mock-up some screenshots of a calc version of Halo or UT2k4 on a calculator or something....
Edit: Yes, I remember the last prank you guys had involved the release of a particular game for the calc too ;)
[Edited by Drantin on 01-Apr-04 06:55] | | 31 Mar 2004, 20:54 GMT |
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| | | April Fools Joke | jessef | | in AK it is not even the first yet. I saw ticalc too. I was fooled for a while because I did not see the link. | | 31 Mar 2004, 21:26 GMT |
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| | | April Fools Joke | spiral | | i saw it and i was like what the heck? And then i went into url history and loaded up other pages and they worked, and then i went to old forum urls and saw this thread, reloaded prank page and got to home page. | | 31 Mar 2004, 21:59 GMT |
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| | | April Fools Joke | zkostik | hehe :)
halo for ti calcs would be kinda cool! you guys remember that basic Halo? that'd be a good joke to post it on the front page. :Dor uhm, we could have made up a grayscale version of a halo screeny but that'd prolly look too fake unless visitors are really n00bs.
btw, speaking of ticalc's article (prank). did anyone notice that we're third on their referring list? we ever got more referrals than geocities, msn, ask and many others. this is pretty impressive and i'm glad that our crosslinking with ticalc works well. anyone who wishes to check out their impressive logs can click HERE.
[Edited by zkostik on 01-Apr-04 16:30]
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09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 | | 1 Apr 2004, 06:22 GMT |
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| | | April Fools Joke | allynfolksjr | Look at googles 4/1 http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html and I heard that they're offering free e-mail service with 1GB of storage... it smells like a prank also, but check it out, almost every major news service is reporting the 'gmail'. Believe it if you want.
[Edited by allynfolksjr on 01-Apr-04 17:39] | | 1 Apr 2004, 07:30 GMT |
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| | | April Fools Joke | Digital | | It should have been up longer!. It is not even 8 over here and most pepole would not have checked untill later in the day. What's done is done. Hope you guys had fun. | | 1 Apr 2004, 07:46 GMT |
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| | | April Fools Joke | Barrett | well Z, keep in mind that we have quite a few downloads linking to ticalc.org..
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-Barrett A | | 1 Apr 2004, 12:14 GMT |
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| | | April Fools Joke | Drantin | These will only be up as long as my computer is on (and hopefully this thread isn't *too* high in traffic...), but Halo for the TI-89! and TI-92p are finally finished! Well, converting the screenshots anyway ;)
[Edited by Drantin on 01-Apr-04 22:46] | | 1 Apr 2004, 12:40 GMT |
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| | | April Fools Joke | zkostik | at last, halo has conquered a 68k platform as well. behold the power of 68k halo!
you're right about the links B. do you think file links count as referrals? well, 4300 remote dls in a week sounds possible...
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09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 | | 1 Apr 2004, 20:10 GMT |
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