Online pranks are sweeeeet

In recent years, competition has been getting stiffer between the big websites as to who can be the most creative and fool the biggest amount of people for April fools and this year was certainly a step up! Among the online pranksters was YouTube, who redirected any video to a video of 1980’s cheesy hit ‘Never gonna give you up’. The prank managed to get a horrible song stuck in over three million people’s heads within the first few days! They also introduced a new project with Digg called YouDigg, but whenever you tried the new functionality it gave you crazy errors. But my own personal favorite was by Google, who fronted on their homepage a very legitimate looking new endeavor with Virgin’s billionaire owner Richard Branson called ‘Project Virgil’, which aimed to recruit volunteers for the first ever human colony on Mars! There was a questionnaire and everything, that apparently lots of people actually filled out!! niiiiiiice!

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