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Google TiSP (short for Toilet Internet Service Provider) was a fictitious free broadband service supposedly released by Google. This service would make use of a standard toilet and sewage lines to provide free Internet connectivity at a speed of 8 Mbit/s (2 Mbit/s upload) (or up to 32 Mbit/s with a paid plan).
The man behind one of America's biggest 'fake news' websites is a former BBC worker from London whose mother writes many of his stories. Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 35, runs YourNewsWire.com, the source of scores of dubious news stories, including claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit.
The site used a similar prank for 2018's April Fools' Day – this time, changing its name to Hornhub and displaying videos about women blowing horns instead of pornography. [ 74] Rickrolling: The meme grew out from a similar bait-and-switch trick called "duckrolling" that was popular on the 4chan website in 2006.
The post 50 Funny April Fools’ Pranks to Pull in 2022 appeared first on Reader's Digest. Pranksters are in their element on April 1st. This year, try these funny April Fools' pranks to ensure ...
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Sokal affair. The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax, [ 1] was a demonstrative scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of cultural studies. The submission was an experiment to test the journal's ...
Prank call. A prank call (also known as a crank call or a hoax call or a goof call) is a telephone call intended by the caller as a practical joke played on the person answering. It is often a type of nuisance call. It can be illegal under certain circumstances. Recordings of prank phone calls became a staple of the obscure and amusing cassette ...
April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day[ 1] is an annual custom on 1 April consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting "April Fools!" at the recipient. Mass media can be involved with these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following day.