According to Wikipedia, April Fool’s got its start due to a misunderstanding in one of Chaucer’s classic stories. Whatever the origin, it’s as close to Christmas as us geeks get in the springtime.
This year we did something special for our staff. I wanted to hang one of these up in front of our copiers and printers, but a very wise person advised against it.
Therefore, we altered our internal DNS to point all traffic to social media sites to a custom internal site straight outta the 90’s. There were about 18 domains total that we redirected, including the usual suspects like twitter, facebook, etc. We kept it up for about four hours and then took it down.
Also (to make it seem like this post is helpful in some way) we set up Casper to run the dscacheutil -flushcache command on everyone’s computer to ensure that people could resume their social media activities as quickly as possible. Anyway, here is a video of it in action.
April 2nd, 2010 at 11:32 am
what was the total hit count before you took it down?
April 2nd, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Like 11900 but Saddington was being cute and mis-represented the numbers.