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Google's April Fools jokes were pretty benign anyway... obviously anything related to the virus would be in terribly bad taste, but I don't see why something in the same vein as https://maps.googleblog.com/2012/03/begin-your-quest-with-go... would need to be cancelled. IF anything, we need the humor now more than ever to lift people's spirits.

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My Aunt would disagree. She had a bunch of her pictures of her late husband ruined because Google thought it would be cute to Photoshop David Hasselhoff into them. Especially some of the last pictures she had of him in the hospital (he died pancreatic cancer), and "The Hoff" was showing up in them with his thumbs up.

After looking through them, I noticed that at least Google duplicated the pictures and left the original on alone. But still it would have been better if the doctored photos would have been put in a separate folder.

Oh, and lets not forget the "Reply and drop mic" button that showed up right next to the Send button on Gmail. That wasn't benign.

This sounds terrible, but I can't stop laughing imagining badly photoshoped Hoff with thumbs up by the hospital bed.

I liked Google Gulp.

https://archive.google.com/googlegulp/

"64-bit encryption" is charmingly quaint.

But they weren’t that funny. They were mostly just annoying.

It's a truly lame and obnoxious "holiday" all around. I'd be glad to see it cancelled indefinitely.

To each their own, personally I look forward to it every year to see the creative things companies come up with

They're creative and interesting, but not that many of them are actually funny.

Launching GMail on April 1st was funny.

Nobody believed that 1GB of free email storage was real, back then ~10MB was the norm.

Now we've got more storage than we'll ever need.

> On a larger scale, he says that the world's data centers in 2010 accounted for 130 million tons of CO2e, or a quarter of a percent of the world's global total. Berners-Lee projected that the world's data centers will produce 250 to 340 million tons CO2e by 2020.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/25...

Similar good "not really fooling you": https://github.blog/2010-04-01-announcing-svn-support

Sure it fooled people, it fooled me, but was it really funny? I mean, did you laugh? I was surprised (pleasantly even), but it's not like it made me giggle.

I thought Google TiSP was funny.

It might help if they were actually funny in any way.

The link you posted certainly isn’t.

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