Survey posted 2006-04-02 20:41 by Jon.

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You got me, I'll say that. My thought at first was that someone didn't pay the bill or something too, although my other thought was that the site was undergoing updates and needed to be taken off-line or something. I must confess that I know very little about web site inner workings.

Anyway, I probably wouldn't have even noticed since I doubt I would have checked the site yesterday except for the fact that I clicked on that link in my browser instead of the one I was trying to click.

Nice one guys!!

OOOOO, that was a joke? I thought the server was just down for a bit or something.

Seriously, fooled at first, then got suspicious when I found out that the same thing happened to detachedsolutions. Used the history links in my browser and poof, site comes up.

Is there still a way to revisit the april fools page?

sorry for asking, already found the site (click on webpage)

See the link that someone posted in one of the other news forums.

Why isn't there a "That was a cruel joke" option? Just wondering.

yeah, i really didn't get it. i thought the site was changed for good, and it didn't even occur to me it was a joke.

I was most displeased, even though it was a good joke. I already assumed the worst, and visited ticalcs.net in hope that they could spread light on the situation.

it's April fools day! all jokes are harmless unless someone's killed or their stuff is permanently damaged.

Andy, I shall never forgive you for convincing me that it was real!!!
(well, I'll probably forget to hate you within the next minute)

Well, I didn't really expect "something like this", but I expected there to be a joke, so I wasn't scared, and a quick whois confirmed my suspicion.

it fooled me because i first saw it on the 31st

Same here. I was sitting in a hotel lobby scouting robotics teams and decided to check out if they posted any new programs. I was scared for a minute, but I realized that it was March 31. Oh, if you are interested, I am in the FIRST competition, Team Fusion #364.

I must commend whoever designed the trick page. It looked very realistic, with the obvious exception of the link urls.

Yes the page was very professional, but the HP calculator at the bottom just made me mad.

That's its purpose: to madden the rabid TIers among us.

It might of fooled me if I hadn't just gone to my Tiorg.com/account bookmark...

I practically gave my brother a heart attack on April 1st--I put an Ubuntu Linux LiveCD into his computer and booted it up late at night, and let run overnight. I was rudely awoken the next morning at the crack of dawn by his shrieks when he couldn't find Windows! He was so ignorant to believe that I had actually INSTALLED Linux on his Windows machine :) 120d//!

This is especially funny when one considers that he is in high school, and should know better.

I kinda wish there was an "edit" button on our posts...that way, this kind of post would be unnecessary.

I was thinking that it would be funny to rig a watter fountain so that the watter lowered until you shoved your face down to it then it would let loose at full power. of course this is very impractical and requires a fair amount of money so I did not attempt it.

A proximity sensor and a PIC could take care of control. The hard part would be having enough control of the water flow (not just on/off), and putting the valve in the right place in the water fountain. That would be a good joke, though.

On our robot transporter, I attached a water pump to a container and installed a button that says, "Do Not Touch," which of course makes everybody touch it. Right now I have it aimed at the face, but I'm probably going to move it to the crouch area and name it "Tinkle Trails." I have also been thinking of different names for it such as... Well, it would be inapropriate for this site except for "Horn." I've also been thinking about different liquids to put in such as invisible ink. I fool people all the time with it by saying, "Hey, push the button that says, 'Do Not Touch.'"

Having a stand-alone version of that would be great...put 'em out in halls, and add a camera to take a picture right after the button's pressed.

yah I know I could use a proximity sensor and a micro controler the problem is that it seems like alot of time and money for an april foools joke and I would have to hack someone elses watterfountain

I think watter flow could be controlled with a flexible piece of tubing and a cam on a servo. it might be nice to have some sort of reservoir so it can give a big blast.

Yeah, I was thinking about using the fountain's internal tank for the water supply. That would be the hard part, opening it up, finding which pipe should be replaced, and replacing it, since the electronics would be easy if you know what you're doing.

Lol, you should've overwritten his Windows installation. ;-) I bet he'd be happier later when he realized that it ran faster and didn't crash all the time.

In my opinion windows can't crash because it does not work to start with.