April Fools joke?

[Guest]

Is this true:

 

http://www.microsoft.com@dmoz.org/April-01-2002_GOD_PR.html

 

or is it an april fools' joke? Hope it isn't true.... /images/icons/frown.gif

[Guest]

If it is a April Fools joke, is there not legal jeopardy to Dmoz and AOL by putting a copyright on the home page with a trademarked name?

[Guest]

Is a pledge of Allegiance to Microsoft needed now?

 

Oh I feel sorry for all those Linux loving editors in dmoz.

 

David Pendray

[Guest]

I just removed my OS/2 from my computer, and installed Windows. At the moment I'm busy fetching megabytes of fixes through windows update. Brb, have to reboot _again_. /images/icons/wink.gif

 

BTW: how does "Microsoft Communicator" or "Microsoft Mozilla" sound? /images/dmoz/purplegrin.gif

[Guest]

While you're at it check out the nice Microsoft headers and footers now appearing on ODP pages. I especially like the copywrite Bill Gates 2002 tag

[Guest]

>...legal jeopardy to Dmoz and AOL by putting a copyright...

 

LIGHTEN UP !

 

(and no, there's not...)

[Guest]

Check out the new "About" page: http://dmoz.org/about.html

 

Also note our new motto: "Monopolies do it better"!

 

We always speculate about what Keith and Bob are going to do for April 1st, and they always outdo anything we could imagine!

[jordancpeterson]

Hey I like the new layout of the category pages! Can we keep them?

[jordancpeterson]

Hey! Check out my profile and see where I say Open Directory Project? They changed it to Microsoft Directory! /images/icons/frown.gif

[Guest]

<< Check out my profile and see where I say Open Directory Project? They changed it to Microsoft Directory! >>

 

Try adding Open Directory Project to your profile and it automatically changes it to Microsoft Directory Project freaky

[Guest]

Notice they missed these two pages when name changing

http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/feedback.cgi?

http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/advanced_search.html

Also look at:

http://dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/

where the category changes and name has not been added. (Although all the subcategories and category descriptions have changed.)

DP

[Guest]

Also notice that all category descriptions have been changed to say Microsoft Directory. See:

http://dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/desc.html

[Guest]

Last year's April Fools joke for the public was:

http://dirt.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease040101.html

[Khym_Chanur]

When looking at any URL that has an "@" in the very first part, the part before the "@" is actually a user name, so http://www.microsoft.com@dmoz.org/April-01-2002_GOD_PR.html is user "www.microsoft.com" at machine "dmoz.org".

 

This little trick is used by many a scoundrel in furthering his nefarious schemes.

[apeuro]

The story has been picked up by Pandia. What's even cooler is that they've mentioned the Public Forum!

[apeuro]

Even though the MDP was removed from dmoz.org , Google managed to cache the page. They're amazing! /images/icons/smile.gif

 

Check it out here.

[foetusized]

Those pigeons at Google work fast.

 

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

 

-- Foe (yes, the above is Google's April Fools joke for today)

[Guest]

GREAT and FUNNY this years April Fools joke

 

1st of April this year was one of the best. I'll remember it as long as I live. "Very funny". I'm still kind of laughing.

 

Thank you so much to those who did it.

 

For those who did not login on the 1st of April : I took some screenshots of some danish GOD pages :

 

http://www.claes.dk/index.php?id=2543

 

Wish for all to have a

/images/icons/smile.gif HAPPY SPRING and HAPPY SUMMER /images/icons/smile.gif

 

All the best

Claes(Denmark)