Episode 75
Chat: April Fools' Is Cancelled
CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Adam Gordon Bell
April 1, 202238m 50s
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Show Notes
On this day in 2014 "lame april fools' jokes" were banned from hacker news.
Today in our first This-Day-in-History segment, I want to share some of history not just of April Fools', but of tech pranks in general, all leading up to 2014.
Why were pranks and April Fools' jokes traditionally celebrated in tech? Why are they now considered as dang said, "lame?"? And is there anything we can do to save them? Those are today's questions.