1 April in internet history
Things that can be dated to 1 April: the day something was posted, a record that changed hands, an event research has pinned to a date. Every entry links to where it was read.
On this day1 April
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Seven people put up signs bearing the phrase around Sturgis, Michigan, as an April Fools’ joke. During the Iraq war, residents are alarmed. All Your Base Are Belong To Us Wikipedia — All your base are belong to us
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Every featured link on YouTube’s homepage leads to the video. It is watched 6.6 million times that day. Rickrolling Wikipedia — Rickrolling
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Lady Gaga's Bad Romance took the title — the first music video to do so, beginning a hold by music videos that has never since been broken. Wikipedia — List of most-viewed YouTube videos
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Google publishes an April Fools’ game that hides Pokémon in Google Maps. The idea of a real one follows from it. Pokémon Go Wikipedia — Pokémon Go
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China’s CCTV airs a report that Kabosu has died. It is an April Fools’ hoax. Doge Wikipedia — Doge (meme)
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Brolsma uploads the original to his own YouTube channel, more than twelve years after he made it. Numa Numa Wikipedia — Numa Numa (video)
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The track is released as an April Fools’ joke. Crab Rave Wikipedia — Crab Rave
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A Discord April Fools' video reached about a billion views in under a day because an in-app notification looped it for everyone with the app open. YouTube later revised the figure down to the low millions. Tubefilter