What is it everyone got fooled by the April Fools day prank?

Emulators can be useful. They can also be a huge nuisance to set up. Ever since I wrote a review for VTI I've been helping people set up both that and Tilem.

Agreed. I wonder ... did everyone think that ticalc.org was taken over by some domain thief?

Haha! Good one! I look forward to the Ticalc April Fool's prank every year. Having been around for 4-5 years now, it didn't trick me, but then again, I came here today with the expectation of a prank.

And by the way, it does look real... good job with that.

I was freaking out for about 45 seconds...actually, I initially thought someone had hijacked my DNS service. :D

I came here looking for the April Fool's Day prank. When I saw the links page I figured I had mistyped the address, so I suppose it fooled me. :) After I pointed at a few links & found that they linked to http://www.ticalc.org/index.htm, I figured out what they did.

You mean the links on the april fools page pointed to ticalc.org/index.htm? When I'm looking at it now, they all (except for Random Numbar Generator) link to pages that are actually related to the name of the link.
@Staff: nice work!

When I first came, none of the links pointed to /index.html!

No, just the Random Numbar Generator pointed to index.htm. The others pointed to ti.com & ticalc.org variously. Sorry.

Gotta admit, they fooled me for about ten seconds. :S At first I thought someone had forgotten to renew the ticalc.org domain (just like what happened to detacheds.com a while back). However, looking a second time made me realize it was a prank. Which just goes to show that I don't even read pages that match that particular format. ;)
The worst thing is that just five minutes before I went to ticalc.org I was thinking about how no april fools jokes had been made yet today...

yeah they got me; i couldn't believe that the ti staff would actually advertise hp calcs, so i figured they really forgot to pay their dues, then i checked the links and noticed the articles for voyage 400 were april 1st, too, and it all fell in place.

tricky, tricky :`D

I wasn't here yesterday, so I didn't see it. :-( (I was taking the #@%^@ SAT...) It sounds like there was a fake 'expired domain' page?

See Web Page link for the Google Cache link. Don't know how long it'll last, though.

Haha, that's great! Too bad I wasn't here on April 1st.

Well when I saw it, it was still the 31st. After seeing slashdot I cursed timezones and went to bed.

slashdot??

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters.

You mean "Slashdot: OMG!!! Ponies!!!"?

No, I knew it was a joke (Today I think everything's a joke), but I didnt know how to get to the actual site.

everything is a joke. yesterday i was watching tv and the network decided to put in farting noises randomly during the shows.

*Turns on his computer, goes to ticalc.org, sees web page is not normal, tries various ways to figure it out, reads this post, is released from the hospital from heart attack*
I have only been visiting this web site for a few months. I am not familiar with the suprises of this site.

IS A LINK TO THE REAL PAGE AT THE BOTTOM TOO MUCH TO ASK???

I'm glad that Google still hadn't updated their copies so I could find what I was looking for. Google and archive.org are the greatest.

IS A LINK TO THE REAL PAGE AT THE BOTTOM TOO MUCH TO ASK???

I'm glad that Google still hadn't updated their copies so I could find what I was looking for. Google and archive.org are the greatest.

btw, if it was april fools, wouldn't it make more sense to set it up ON april fools day not the day before?!?! Who's thinking about that stuff on march 31?!?!

stupid IE stop button...now there are duplicates...

Of course the servers are in sweden, april 1st happens to come in a couple of hourse before it does in the states ...

so? write a script so that the page that loads depends on the local system time. it could automatically load at 00:00:00.0 and revert at 23:59:59.9

or go by only eastern time...or convince everyone to convert to greenwich mean time...

UTC is better than GMT

I made mine javascript-based depending on the user machine's time.

That, and, April Fool's Day starts at midnight UTC, not midnight local time.