1 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: Get in tech with Technology with text Stuff from how 2 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: stuff dot com. Hello, everyone, welcome to the podcast and 3 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 1: you are listening to stuff you missed in history class, 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,080 Speaker 1: where you're two new hosts, Jonathan Strickland and Lauren. Today, 5 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: we wanted to talk about the history of April Fools Day. Uh, actually, 6 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: obviously this is an April Fools Tech Stuff episode. The 7 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:33,559 Speaker 1: last time we did one of these, it was it 8 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: was me and my my former co host Chris, and 9 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: we decided to say that tech Stuff had been canceled 10 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: and replaced with reruns of stuff you should know. So 11 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: I thought this time I would just say that we 12 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: were now stuff you missed in history class. That, of 13 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: course is not true. We wanted to update folks on 14 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 1: other pranks and jokes that technology companies have done in 15 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: the years since that tech Stuff episode, which that published 16 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: in two thousand nine. We did not cover two thousand 17 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: nine because us it published that day. Yeah, we record 18 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: the episodes early, so there's no way of that we 19 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 1: would have any way of knowing what was going to 20 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: happen on the actual April first. Yeah, we also don't 21 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: know what's going to happen this year. When when you're 22 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: listening to this, we will also be finding out what's 23 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: going on. So uh, but before we jump into two 24 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,199 Speaker 1: thousand nine and then work our way through, I thought 25 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: I mentioned a few pranks we didn't talk about in 26 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: that first episode, and one of them is, Uh, it's 27 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: some of these are not April Fools pranks, by the way. 28 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: They're just famous pranks that have happened within the world 29 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 1: of technology. And one of them is is one that 30 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 1: that definitely ruffled feathers. And uh, and Lauren, I know 31 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: you know about this one too. It's what Gizmodo did 32 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight at c e S and 33 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: they brought along these little controllers called TV be Gone. Yeah. 34 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 1: So these are controllers that they only have one purpose, 35 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: which is to turn off any television set that uses 36 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: the infrared receivers to you know, you just press a 37 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: button and it goes through all these different codes that 38 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: are used for various television sets to turn them off. 39 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 1: So some folks from Gizmoto were given some TV begne 40 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: controllers and then they proceeded to wreak havoc or at 41 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: least spread mischief around the and they even did it 42 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: during some presentations Oh, that's not that's not necessarily kind. Yeah. 43 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 1: So um yeah. In fact, they cut a lot of 44 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: flak for that, and including for me. I mean, I 45 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: you know there, I'm sure there are very talented people 46 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: who write for Gizmoto or who work on other projects 47 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: with Gizmoto, but that that got under my skin, you know, 48 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:43,119 Speaker 1: to the point where I was thinking, like, if I'm 49 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: a guy whose job it is to to present to 50 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: the press and two vendors how amazing a product is, 51 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: and the product keeps not working throughout my presentation, that 52 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: could mean actual loss in sales and bad press, and 53 00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 1: it just I mean to me that that's not the 54 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 1: role of journalism. It's not to to be like, hell, 55 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: look how clever and naughty we are, you know. And uh, 56 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: the c E A that's the organization that puts on 57 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: c e s agrees with me because they banned Gizmodo 58 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: for that behavior. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's that kind of 59 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: goes with I think that a lot of people in 60 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: the press are kind of over this entire tech April 61 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: fools on the web thing. That's a great thing to 62 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: point out. Yeah, there to be fair, Like, I still 63 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: find it amusing but it's not my job to follow 64 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 1: every I don't report the tech news. We're not a 65 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: news situation, so it doesn't it doesn't really matter if 66 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: we have a day by day up to the date 67 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: everything going on all the time, Whereas if if we 68 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: were to cover the news, then you already know on 69 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: April one that there's no way to have any sort 70 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: of reliability. Yeah, all the news stuff you run into 71 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: on April one, there's a very good chance that it's 72 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: Shenanigan's right, right Canary. Yeah, although I do think most 73 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: places are pretty good about having a little link at 74 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 1: the bottom that says like, oh no, this is an 75 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: April Fools joke, most but not all. Uh yeah, and 76 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: a couple of other pranks. I wanted to mention, I'm 77 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: sure that we mentioned this in an episode of Tech 78 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: Stuff in the past, but I could not find it. 79 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: If any of you guys remember right in because it 80 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: is killing Jonathan, it's really it's there's that little vange. 81 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: I am definitely guilty of manufacturing false memories, so so 82 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: it's quite possible that I did invent these, but I could. 83 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 1: I'm sure that I heard Chris talking about this, But again, 84 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 1: these aren't April Fools jokes, but but cal Tech has 85 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: a rich, rich history of pulling pranks. Some of them 86 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: aren't hacking in the sense of hacking electronics, but are 87 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,159 Speaker 1: more like social hacking, life social horror, or just yeah, 88 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 1: life hacking. A great example of the life hacking approach 89 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: was in nineteen sixty one during the Rose Bowl game. 90 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,679 Speaker 1: So cal Tech, which was not in the Rose Bowl 91 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: that year, UH, discovered that one of the plans UH 92 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: during that that game was for the one cheerleading squad 93 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: to yell out numbers and then the audience would hold 94 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 1: up a card that related to whatever the number was, 95 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: and some cal Tech students went in and fiddled with 96 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: the system so that one there were fifteen different numbers 97 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: that they would go through throughout the game. So once 98 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: they hit fourteen, when everyone held up the cards, that 99 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 1: actually spelled out cal Tech. So they managed to crash 100 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl. Well, they did it again in nineteen 101 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 1: four because that year they ended up rewiring the scoreboard 102 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: so that although the actual game was U c L 103 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,919 Speaker 1: a versus the University of Illinois, the scoreboard said that 104 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 1: it was cal Tech thirty eight M I T three UH, 105 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: and then UH They've done a lot of pranks on 106 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: m T, and m T has done some on cal 107 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: Tech as well. It's like, if you get really smart 108 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 1: kids all together in one room, they get a little 109 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 1: bit bored. And yeah, apparently they once traveled from California 110 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: all the way to Massachusetts. Uh, there's a sign at 111 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: m I T that says the Institute of Technology, and 112 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: they made the sign read that other Institute of Technology, 113 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: and then they passed out free T shirts to the 114 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: pre freshmen who were there to explore the grounds, and 115 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 1: the T shirts on the front red m I T. 116 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:18,919 Speaker 1: On the back it said because not everyone can go 117 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,919 Speaker 1: to cal Tech. So yeah, anyway, the cal Tech has 118 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: got a real long history of it. But let's move 119 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: on to some actual pranks that were pulled in two 120 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 1: thousand nine. Yeah, do you do you have one you 121 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: want to start off with, which just kind of kind 122 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: of alternate. Yeah, um, I was. I was really fond 123 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: of of of YouTube flipping all of its videos upside down. 124 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:40,919 Speaker 1: And there's a little message that would play on the 125 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 1: site that said that for for maximum like viewing optimacy. Right, 126 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: that's not a word, that's not the word that they used, 127 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: but it's similar to that. Yeah, where it was everything 128 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: was upside down. That was a good one. Microsoft released 129 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: a trailer for a game called Alpine Legend. Yeah. It 130 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: ended up yeah, like like Guitar Legend, Yeah, but with 131 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: an alpine horn. Yeah. The Alpine Horn looked like it 132 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: was twelve ft long and had four buttons on it 133 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: and you were supposed to it was a rhythm game, 134 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: just like Guitar Hero or Rock Band or anything like that. 135 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: And um. Yeah, and then they had a singing component, 136 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: so you would have someone yotally next to you as 137 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: you were playing them. I love this. I want one. 138 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: It's kind of my think geek moment when I didn't 139 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: I didn't even see that when it happened in two 140 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: thousand night, or if I did, I have no memory 141 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: of it. Uh, do you have another one you want 142 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: to do? Um? Amazon announced that they were going to 143 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: have some blimp based cloud computing systems yea, which is awesome. 144 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: I still I still want that. I would take Yeah, 145 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: they would pay for that service. They were they were 146 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 1: going literal with cloud services. It was called the Floating 147 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: Amazon Cloud Environment or FACE, and it supposedly had solar 148 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: cells on the top of each blimp that would collect 149 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: solar energy to provide the electricity needed for that that blimp. 150 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: There was the Hotelicopter. Hotelicopter, Yes, I think that end 151 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: gadget actually fell for. It was supposedly a Soviet m 152 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: I l V twelve helicopter, helicopter, one of those kind 153 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: of double decker looking things, enormous thing, and that I 154 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: had been converted into a luxury hotel that had eighteen rooms. 155 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: Each room had a coffee machine or WiFi WiFi, yeah, 156 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: and they used the images they used were actually images 157 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: taken from a chain of hotels called Yotel and uh. 158 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: In fact, it was later discovered that Yotel was in 159 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: on the joke, so it wasn't just that someone had 160 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: stolen stole the pictures. Google that year, Oh gosh, Google 161 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: always comes out with a ton of things. Uh, let's see, 162 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 1: they had I think I think it was a kind 163 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: of under an umbrella, that one that was their Caddie 164 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: Katie k A d I E. Yeah, that was the 165 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: kind of have auto heuristic distributed intelligence entity. Yeah, and 166 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: it was an artificially intelligent creation that Google then unleashed 167 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: on the web, supposedly, and one of the first things 168 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: that did was build its own website. And it built 169 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: its own website by from Google explained that it was 170 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: designed to pull design elements and design strategies from the 171 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: web and pick the ones that are the most popular 172 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: because those have to be the best ones, and build 173 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: its own website. Did you actually see the website? It 174 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: looked like something from It was like Geo cities. Yeah, 175 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 1: there was. There was an animated banner at the top, 176 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: there were pandas all over the page. There was a 177 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:30,679 Speaker 1: there was a music playing in the background. I mean, 178 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: like every bad design, there was an under construction gift. 179 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,959 Speaker 1: That's what was my favorite. Um. Yeah, there were every 180 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: bad design you can remember in the in the nineties 181 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: from web page design was and this artificially intelligent UH 182 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: creation had supposedly created this picture. Uh. There also was 183 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: an announcement to a three D upgrade to the Chrome 184 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: browser because of all households have at least one pair 185 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: of red blue three D glasses laying around right right. 186 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: There was a Gmail autopilot which would answer your emails 187 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: for Yeah. There was a Picasta feature that would let 188 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: you put red eye into your photos. It would automatically 189 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: add red eye into your photos and if and if 190 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: the photo didn't have any eyes to add red too, 191 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: it would it would destroy it. I didn't get to 192 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,959 Speaker 1: that part. That is awesome. Uh yeah, I mean in Australia, 193 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: Google announced g Ball, a GPS enabled soccer ball. I'm 194 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: assuming that they meant soccer since it's Australian rules football. 195 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: Australian Okay, so not not soccer but Australian rules football. Yeah. 196 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: It not only was a GPS enabled, but it could 197 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: send messages to like, let's say that you are a 198 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: sports fan, but you can't watch the game. It would 199 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 1: update you via text messages how the game was going 200 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: based upon the position of the ball, Like I'm getting 201 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: kicked around a lot. This is hurting my self esteem. 202 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, that was. There was some great stuff from 203 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: Google that year. Yeah. Yeah. My My other favorite, being 204 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: that I work in social media, is that Guardian reported 205 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 1: it was going to shut down all of its web 206 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: and print services um and go Twitter only. Yeah. They 207 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:00,080 Speaker 1: said that that everything that has ever reported in the 208 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 1: news can be summed up in a hundred forty characters 209 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: or fewer. Expedia offered flights to Mars starting at and hotels. 210 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: Dot Com offered deals on hotel rooms on the Moon. 211 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: Warner Brothers supposedly bought the Pirate Bay for thirteen billion 212 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 1: dollars because they were involved in a lengthy lawsuit and 213 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 1: Warner Brothers it didn't look like Warner Brothers would win, 214 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: so the only way Warner Brothers could get around it 215 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: would be by buying the Pirate Bay. Yeah, that obviously 216 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: was not true. That was reported on torrent Freak. That 217 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: was the source of that one. Yahoo announced that they 218 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 1: had ideological Search, which would let you filter out any 219 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: search results that that conflict with your own worldview. So 220 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: it's kind of like Facebook, how you just start to 221 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: unfriend people like I do not want any more posts 222 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 1: about that. Actually, I'm kind of afraid that that's what 223 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,199 Speaker 1: Google is doing right now, like this very moment in 224 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: the real world. Yeah, tech Crunch reported that their their 225 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: technology blog, crunch Gear, had been purchased by General Mills, 226 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: so that crunch Gear would be about crunchy cereals, which 227 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:00,199 Speaker 1: again I don't know I thought I would of I 228 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: would read that Wired's geek Dad became jock Dad. Uh. 229 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: Reddit became red dig and they totally redesigned themselves. Yeah, 230 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: they redesigned the page to make it look more like dig, 231 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: which you know, redd it and dig. There's definitely a 232 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:24,079 Speaker 1: especially at the Zappos said that they were introducing bunk desks, 233 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,719 Speaker 1: so they would build platforms above a desk and put 234 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: a second desk on there. The picture was great because 235 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 1: it showed a guy sitting at his desk facing away 236 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: from the camera and a platform built over his desk, 237 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 1: and on top of the platform was a second desk 238 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: with a young lady facing towards the camera working on 239 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: at her desk, and they had to remove the ceiling 240 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: tile over her head because otherwise her head would be 241 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: pressed up against it, so that was kind of funny. Um. 242 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: There was the service Chirper that was announced by box 243 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: dot net because they said that Twitter is just characters. 244 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: There's just just too long, so it reduces your tweets 245 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: to fifty characters by dropping letters. Wow. Yeah, it was 246 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:07,840 Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Uh yeah. Opera browser was introducing face based gestures, 247 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 1: so to zoom out, you'd puff your cheeks out. To 248 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:13,959 Speaker 1: zoom in, you you suck your cheeks in. To reload 249 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 1: the page, you twist your neck that kind of stuff. 250 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: There were some pretty good ones that year two thousand nine, 251 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: I have to say was probably like the banner year 252 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 1: for I think that was where the tech goofiness on 253 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 1: April Fool's really peaked, and then people started to kind 254 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:31,599 Speaker 1: of back off after that. But this was like the 255 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: the year where everyone was doing it. A National Geographic 256 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: announced the publication of its newest title, National Geographic, The 257 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: Best of the Breasts. The press release said, finally, a 258 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 1: compendium of all our stellar breast photography has been called 259 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: for our one twenty six year history. It's a celebration 260 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 1: of the female body and its honest form that is 261 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,440 Speaker 1: completely amazing. It makes me so much more fond of 262 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 1: National and I'm like, I didn't know that they had 263 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: that sense of human and uh. In a little website, 264 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 1: a blog for a webs sight, a little website called 265 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:04,239 Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com had an article about rechargeable 266 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:07,839 Speaker 1: chewing gum written by a Jonathan Strickland. That was my 267 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: contribution that year. I couldn't talk about it during the 268 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 1: podcast that we recorded way back in two thousand nine 269 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: because it had not yet published. UM. I was particularly 270 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 1: proud of that when I had some people believing it, 271 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: even though I thought it was the thing when you 272 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: write these things, you'd think, there's no way anyone. We'll 273 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: move on to twenty ten. So twenty ten, well, first 274 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: of all, un let's say, Think, of course has a 275 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: history of announcing ridiculous products on April Fool's Day and 276 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: then another history of making them become real things. When 277 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: people say, why doesn't that exist? I would buy that thing. 278 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 1: Please let me give you my money. And my favorite 279 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: from Think was the year that the Dharma alarm clock 280 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: from from Lost came out. This is and if you 281 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: guys have not watched Lost, then you're going to be 282 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: completely bored for the next fifteen seconds. But but it 283 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: had two alarm settings and one minute warning and an 284 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: electromagnetic cataclysic mode um nice. It has a twenty three 285 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 1: year warranty or until your house explodes, and polar bear 286 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: not included. Does it does it flash sideways like like 287 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: Lost did? It's it's got a got higher glyphs, but 288 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: it had. They also introduced the ikade, which was the 289 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: little arcade cabinet housing that you would put an iPad 290 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 1: into and you could play arcade games on it, which 291 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 1: and that became a real thing. We have here, we 292 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: have one here in the office. I've played with it myself. UM, 293 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: let's see YouTube announced text p, which was and there 294 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: was a response to the fact that the online videos 295 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 1: take up a lot of broadband. It takes up a 296 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: lot of you know, it requires a long time to buffer, 297 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: like especially back in you know, it wasn't quite as 298 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 1: fast and mobile was definitely an issue there too. So 299 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: text p was a service that would convert videos into 300 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: streaming text instead of video actual video images, and that 301 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: you could supposedly just watch a video and text form, 302 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 1: which was nice, nice way to streamline that broadband problem. Uh. 303 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: The The Independent newspaper from the UK reported a plan 304 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: to build a had drunk glider in the circle line 305 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: of London's metro right so the tube would become a 306 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 1: particle accelerator. I thought that was a great one. I 307 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: love that Funny or Die turned into Bieber or Die. 308 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: Supposedly Justin Bieber purchased Funny or Die and then it 309 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: just became a website about Justin Bieber. All the videos 310 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: were about Justin Bieber. That was a fantastic one. Uh. 311 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: There were there was some great fake articles on Wikipedia. UM. 312 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 1: I don't know how that's different from any other day, 313 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: but one of those was a joke, just a joke. 314 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: Not all of them are fake, no, but you know, 315 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: I'm saying this just after the news broke that that 316 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 1: someone detected that BP had been fudge changing the environmental 317 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: report about the the oil spill. So you know, they're 318 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: always check your sources. Wikipedia right right. Wikipedia has its place. 319 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: It's just you have to take it with a grain 320 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: of salt, and you know how people sometimes mess with 321 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 1: the system. Anyway, They purposefully had some some joke articles. 322 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,199 Speaker 1: My favorite one was one that said a Japanese company 323 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 1: had accidentally sent some of its customers back to That's 324 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: that's a good one. That's good. Hulu created a fake 325 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: option to watch videos in three D and that was 326 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: one of the those things where you start watching it 327 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 1: and it turns into the whole aliens have created Hulu 328 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 1: and TV. It's part of that secret plan campaign that 329 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: they were doing for so long. What's his name in 330 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 1: that other girl Baldwin? Yeah, Alizadu, I think was also 331 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,360 Speaker 1: in some of those one of the Baldwin's I think 332 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: it was, yeah, Alec I believe. Um. Let's see what else. 333 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 1: Let's see um read it. That year, that was the 334 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:55,160 Speaker 1: year that they temporarily granted all users at an accident. Wow, yes, 335 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: for the whole day, which means, you know, you could 336 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:00,400 Speaker 1: you could edit headlines, you could ban users, You could 337 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: infinitely vote up anything you wanted, so you could post 338 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 1: your own link and then vote it up to the 339 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 1: very top of Reddit. Meanwhile everyone else is doing the 340 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: same thing, right, So yeah, it was that was a 341 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:13,120 Speaker 1: I love I love the stuff that read it does. 342 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 1: That one was terrific though, Um Google went nuts again. Yeah, yeah, 343 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: that was okay, So that was That was the year. 344 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,719 Speaker 1: That was right after UM, Topeka, Kansas had named itself 345 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 1: Google for a Day in a way too, and they 346 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: were trying to to attract Google to build out that 347 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 1: fiberhood in Topeka. Yeah yeah, and uh and so Google 348 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 1: renamed itself Topeka for the Day. Yeah. And then they 349 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 1: also replaced search speeds with fake terms, so you know, 350 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: like you it tells you how long it took you 351 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,679 Speaker 1: two took Google to perform your search. Then it was 352 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: saying things like it's seven point to warp or twenty 353 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: three point oh skidoo, which I thought was great. Um, 354 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:56,439 Speaker 1: Gmail had a vowel outage and so only consonants were 355 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: showing up. Google UK had a translate for animals, so 356 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: you could hold up your phone your tone. You can 357 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 1: make a little audio recording and it would tell you 358 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,360 Speaker 1: what your dog or cat or pig was saying. Pig 359 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: pig Latin was going to be a new expansion coming 360 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 1: out sade right. Uh, there we was. There was also 361 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: if you typed in where am I into Google search field. 362 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,719 Speaker 1: Usually you get coordinates when you do that, but if 363 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 1: you did it on that day, it would tell you 364 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: things like Neptune or more door or entrance to Hogwarts 365 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 1: if only. Uh yeah, there were some great ones there. 366 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: Um Kodak announced aeromatography. Aeromatography it's like smell a vision, 367 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: but in picture form, so you captured the actual scent 368 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 1: of the subject of your photograph. I would I would also, 369 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: that's actually I wouldn't want that technology to be unleashed 370 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 1: upon the world at all at all. I think PC 371 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: World had had an article um users blame sudden acceleration 372 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 1: for recent spade of injuries, and it was about how 373 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: how you know? Windows search queries could be completed a 374 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: less than two minutes and it would just give people seizures. 375 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: Nice thrill lists reported that there was a new startup 376 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 1: called meeting Roulette, which was like chat Roulette except for 377 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 1: business people. So if you wanted to practice your presentation, 378 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:09,439 Speaker 1: you would get on meeting Roulette and get connected with 379 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 1: other random business people and then you would do your presentation. 380 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 1: So it's like chat Roulette, but with more power point 381 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 1: slides and fewer more didy more, more pants and more pants, 382 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 1: more pants, and more power point slides exactly. Uh you know, 383 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 1: you know. Um. There was a flicker announced the flicker Pad, 384 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: which was a pad of paper with photos attached to it. 385 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: Group On had group poop on, which was all luxury 386 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:37,400 Speaker 1: items like crazy luxury atoms, like here's a collage made 387 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:43,199 Speaker 1: out of dollar bills, it's two thousand dollars. Um. College 388 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,360 Speaker 1: Humor actually didn't go on the Internet for their joke. 389 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 1: They went to real New York locations, New York City 390 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 1: locations and put up posters saying coming soon in and 391 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: out Burger So in and out Burgers a California fast 392 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 1: food chain. And they were putting up these California fast 393 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: food chain posters up on like vacant buildings a little 394 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 1: bit boarded up. They put up the signs there. Yeah, 395 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:05,479 Speaker 1: oh that could that could get you punched. I mean, 396 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,640 Speaker 1: I know it's in and out as a religion among 397 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 1: some people. Yes, supposedly. The blogs of New York, the 398 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:13,359 Speaker 1: food blogs kind of picked up on the the joke immediately. 399 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 1: That's good, that's good. Um yeah, So anyway, that's that's 400 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: a good overview of some of the big ones from 401 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 1: twenty tin. I mean, Toshiba also started getting in on 402 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 1: the game. They introduced the Tube top Laptop computer, which 403 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,440 Speaker 1: was a laptop the head, an inflatable case including a 404 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 1: little inner tube that's part of it. Um. So yeah, 405 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: good year twenty tin. But already it was starting to 406 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: slow down a bit. And before we get onto, we'd 407 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: like to take a moment to thank our sponsor. All right, 408 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: let's get back to the joking. So we're at eleven. 409 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 1: Hit me with something from Speaking of Tshiba, that was 410 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: the year that they had the three D monocle bespectacle 411 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: um one three D. So really you'd think you're using 412 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: both eyes. That's that's tricky to do too. I mean obviously, 413 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 1: like those three D involves parallax, which requires two eyes 414 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: to have two lenses, which is why people who have 415 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: vision problems in in just one eye. But not the other. 416 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,360 Speaker 1: Often that you know the three D effect is completely 417 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 1: lost on them. Um also means that you know they 418 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: would prefer to have the polarized lenses because at least 419 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 1: then they could watch whatever the movie was as supposed 420 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: to red or blue, which means it would just be 421 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 1: red or blues. Um. Blizzard for World of Warcraft introduced 422 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 1: a new companion, Crabby, who would give you helpful hints. 423 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 1: Crabby was essentially Clippy for World of Warcraft. I see 424 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 1: her trying to lead a raid. Would you like some help? Uh? Yeah, 425 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:43,919 Speaker 1: I'm not a World of Warcraft player, so that is 426 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 1: hilarious to me. Let's say Hulu redesigned its site to 427 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 1: look like it came out of the ninety nineties. Yeah yeah, 428 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,200 Speaker 1: Windows style. They had all the front page was all 429 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: like like x files and kinds. In the hall they 430 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 1: had they had ads up for like Netscape and and 431 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 1: someone just hit control all the lete to YouTube. They 432 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 1: ended up introducing a a an option that would allow 433 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 1: you to make your photos or your videos look like 434 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,120 Speaker 1: they came from the early nineteen hundreds, so they would 435 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: all turn into silent movies with piano backed music and 436 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: have a cpo tone. Now their feature was not obviously 437 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 1: actually activated, but they created They took some very notable 438 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 1: types of videos and then redid them as like silent 439 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: movie versions. That's that's another thing that I think that 440 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,880 Speaker 1: people would probably if that existed, we would be subjected 441 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:35,439 Speaker 1: to a lot more of that. Yeah, we'd have like 442 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 1: at least two different versions of every video. Oh here's 443 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: my favorite. One. Irish airline rhenn Air announced that it 444 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: would offer child free flights. I okay, I I'd pay. 445 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 1: I would. I don't fly that often, but when I do, 446 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: I I appreciate it when I don't have a crying 447 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:03,400 Speaker 1: baby within five rows and me it's a it's a perk. Absolutely. Hey, 448 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,399 Speaker 1: kids are great. They are they are, and it's not 449 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,400 Speaker 1: their fault, but they're upset and they don't understand why 450 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 1: kids are great. Far away from me. I like other 451 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: people's children. Just find there. I like them too. In 452 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: theory to practice, No, no, kids are kids, kids really are. 453 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: Actually I do like kids. I just you know, I'm 454 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 1: definitely one of those people who normally I can fall 455 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 1: asleep on a flight, but when there's a crying baby, 456 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: that's not not so much. Not really in the cards. 457 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: Uh see Yelp announced puppy rentals rental you could you 458 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 1: could find places to rent a puppy for a while. 459 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: I if it weren't for the fact that I know 460 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 1: that would be psychologically damaging for the puppies, I would 461 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: say that's in a brilliant surface, But because I actually 462 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,359 Speaker 1: care about the animals, it's not a good at all. No, 463 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,680 Speaker 1: not a good idea. Tech Crunch that year announced that 464 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: Spotify was going to be coming to the US and 465 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,080 Speaker 1: in order to afford the tremendous licensing fees for P 466 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: three's shutting down in Europe, which was hilarious. Of course, 467 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 1: everyone had been asking for Spotify for ages here in America, 468 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,200 Speaker 1: and it had been available in Europe for a while, 469 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,919 Speaker 1: and everyone raved about it in Europe, and everyone in 470 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: America is just like, when are we ever going to 471 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: get this? So that was kind of granted. Eventually Spotify 472 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 1: would make its way to America by making a deal 473 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,120 Speaker 1: with Facebook. That would be the way that they got 474 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 1: in on that. Um, let's see what else is My 475 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 1: favorite of think geek that year was the play Mobile 476 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 1: Apple Store play set, which which was you know, the 477 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,640 Speaker 1: little the little plastic people in their little plastic environment 478 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: um to to introduce children to the magic of Apple 479 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,159 Speaker 1: and you could use your own real iPhone. Four is 480 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 1: the screen behind Steve Jobs and the keynote theater. Nice Nice. 481 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 1: Reddit created a a new thing called Mold, right because 482 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,679 Speaker 1: because Reddit gold is their gift currency, it was kind 483 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: of like, yeah, exactly, so if someone gave you mold. 484 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 1: Each time you received mold, you'd see ten fewer comments 485 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: and lose the ability to to type a certain letter. 486 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: And I think the first one was E, and then 487 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 1: it would it would get down to I think only 488 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: MP and H. Yeah, you would eventually get to the 489 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: point where the MPH would be the only letters you 490 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 1: would be able to type with the comment section yeah, which, hey, 491 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: you know that's an interesting feature. Um. There was a 492 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 1: a announced of an announcement of a group on Clone 493 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,400 Speaker 1: called Deals for Hipsters, which was just deals for Hipsters 494 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 1: that said that if you were not satisfied, they would 495 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 1: think about sending you a card that said I'm sorry 496 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,160 Speaker 1: that you didn't. You didn't didn't appreciate that you didn't 497 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:39,679 Speaker 1: appreciate this. I was about I was about to make 498 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,959 Speaker 1: a very unkind comment about Atlanta. Um deal group that 499 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 1: has a mustache in their logo, and then I decided 500 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 1: that instead, I'll just make a snarky allusion to it. 501 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,640 Speaker 1: That's a wise decision, and I'll tell you why later. So, 502 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: so let's a group on itself said that it purchased 503 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:00,119 Speaker 1: April Fool's Day. That was right, and so that no 504 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,400 Speaker 1: one else could do anything on April fools Day because 505 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 1: that would violate the terms of service. Uh, it's a 506 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 1: funnier die ended up. You know. They had they had 507 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,159 Speaker 1: become Biber centric the year before, they decided to do 508 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: something totally different in uh in in this year they 509 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: decided instead of for they'd become a Rebecca Black site. 510 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: It was like between the music with Rebecca Black things 511 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, it was interesting. Whereas Wolf from Alpha 512 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 1: became Biber Beta Beta. Yeah, the little Wolf from Alpha 513 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,359 Speaker 1: logo became like a little cartoon picture of Biber's face. 514 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: Google that year they had they had a job listing 515 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,159 Speaker 1: for the Google auto completer. Right. This is so so 516 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 1: when you're typing in like if you're on Chrome and 517 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: you're typing in a search query in the in the 518 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 1: search bar, the awesome bar, whatever, the omnibar. I can't 519 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,679 Speaker 1: even remember what it's called in Chrome anymore. Um. But 520 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 1: then when you start typing it in, it auto starts 521 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: to auto complete, right Like if you're typing on a phrase, 522 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: it tries to help you out by sending you responses 523 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: that it thinks you're gonna go for. And so the 524 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 1: auto complete, according to this was the person who actually 525 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: types up, you know, anticipates what that search is going 526 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,679 Speaker 1: to be, quickly types it in before you yeah, minimum 527 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:14,359 Speaker 1: typing speed of words per minute, yeah, you know, and 528 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 1: go through a few keyboards a year. That way. Certificate 529 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,359 Speaker 1: and psychic reading strongly preferred, right, Yeah, it was very cute. 530 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: Gmail had Gmail Motion, which was a gesture based interface 531 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 1: to navigate around Gmail. The pdf of all the gestures 532 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 1: is still available online. All yeah, they're they're they're pretty good. Um. Also, 533 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 1: it announced that it was going to as of like 534 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,159 Speaker 1: three days in the future, switch everything to comic Sands 535 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: all the text across all of Google. You know, comic 536 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: Sands definitely has like people just despise that with a 537 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: passion that that that in Papyrus are really there's the 538 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: ones that people really hate. Huh. Kodak created the option 539 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 1: to remove x is from your photos, like ex girlfriend's 540 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: ex boyfriends from your photos with an app called Relationshift. 541 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, that's cute. I know a lot of 542 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: people who would love that. They definitely have a lot 543 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: more photos posted on Facebook right now had they had 544 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 1: that option. LinkedIn began to suggest that you might want 545 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: to connect professionally with people who are either dead or fictional, 546 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 1: like John Watson or Albert Einstein. So yeah, that that 547 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: can really help you get your career ahead. Yeah, there's 548 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: some great stuff that year. Now, I guess we'll go 549 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: ahead and move into last year, two thousand and twelve, 550 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:32,960 Speaker 1: and again we don't have anything for two thousand thirteen, 551 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 1: so we'll talk a little bit about these. Um. I 552 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: like that Airbnb announced that they had a deal where 553 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: you could stay aboard the International Space Station for four thousand, 554 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: one twelve dollars per night. So if you look at 555 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: that amount of money for thousand, one hundred twelve four 556 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: April one first twelve, two twelve, Yeah, that's how they 557 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 1: came up with that that price. Cute. Um. The Register 558 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:03,760 Speaker 1: claimed that Apple had patented the rectangle that specifically, the 559 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: patent was about a quadrilateral having all four interioral angles 560 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: of ninety degrees opposite sides that are parallel and congruent 561 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 1: diagonals that bisect each other. So that is that is amazing. Um, 562 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 1: that's pretty funny. Uh. My favorite from thinking last year 563 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 1: was I think that was the year of the Admiral 564 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 1: Akbar singing wallfish. Yes, they had those singing bass it 565 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: was Admiral Akbar. Yeah, yeah, he could play the cantina 566 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 1: song and I'd say, it's it's a trap. Yeah, yeah, 567 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: here's a sad thing. I would still buy that. That's 568 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 1: that's a little bit terrible, but it's it's I'm ashamed 569 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 1: to admit it, and yet it's still true. I cannot 570 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 1: deny that I would I would actually buy that. Would 571 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 1: it would end up sitting in a closet something. My 572 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: wife would never allow me to put that up anywhere, 573 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: not even in the dog's room. She'd be like, are 574 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: you kidding, and like the dog's deaf, he can't hear anything, 575 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: and she's no, seriously, there's gonna be some deep psychological 576 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 1: damage you will do to that dog if we leave 577 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,960 Speaker 1: this here. So I think it is not to be 578 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: I think there would be. Uh. They also that year 579 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 1: had had minecraft marshmallow creeps instead of instead of peeps 580 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: and uh and and my my personal favorite, as much 581 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 1: love as I have for animal acbar, they had the 582 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: Artenic based sea monkeys straight from Mono Lake. They are 583 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: one percent pure science and one percent fund which means 584 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 1: two awesome for you. Right. So, so that that relates 585 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: back to the science story from that year about the 586 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 1: life forms found to live on Arsenic, which was a 587 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 1: huge scientific breakthrough at the time and was it was 588 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 1: actually a story that end a lot of misrepresentation in 589 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: the science media. But anyway, Yeah, so that was definitely 590 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: a reference to that gentle polke there. Ad block said 591 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: that it would expand beyond blocking ads to blocking pictures 592 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 1: of cats. Oh didn't they had ad block had I 593 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 1: feel like in the previous year they had had um 594 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 1: instead of the normal ad block logo, they would have 595 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,040 Speaker 1: an ad like a block thing with a cat on it. 596 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 1: Very well might in the previous year. So that's that's cute. 597 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: They went from from all cats to know cats. I 598 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 1: liked what Hulu did and that they you know, the 599 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,480 Speaker 1: Hulu voice guy like this episode is brought to you 600 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 1: by blah blah blah that guy. So they had they 601 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: had it as if they had accidentally inserted out takes 602 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 1: from his recording sessions into the things like red leather, 603 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 1: yellow leather, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Alright, 604 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,800 Speaker 1: are we rolling like that? Or this episode of Hulu 605 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,640 Speaker 1: is brought to you by Hey, are we ready to 606 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: go yet? Or what you know? That kind of stuff, 607 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 1: and it was. It was actually inserted into their other 608 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 1: one otherwise normal videos. Um so, I thought that was 609 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:49,200 Speaker 1: really amusing. Beats Audio announced that they were releasing Beats 610 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 1: by Boyle as in Susan Boyle as in I Dreamed 611 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 1: a Dream So Dr Dre and Susan Boyle finally waiting 612 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 1: for that album that that connection that will rule the 613 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 1: music world? Um tashiba again. They announced that they were 614 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 1: releasing tablets of interesting shapes, including an oval, a rhombus 615 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,200 Speaker 1: and the Heart heartsheet tablet by a heart shaped tablet. 616 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: That's so sweet. I have no doubt that you would. 617 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 1: It would probably end up right next to my Admiral 618 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,120 Speaker 1: act bar singing bass a. Blizzard announced that they were 619 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 1: going to start doing more more children's content, educational games, 620 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: y A novels, you know, things like a like all 621 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 1: functional Zerg typing game right where the zer would rush 622 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:39,480 Speaker 1: you if you don't type the word out properly. Yeah. Yeah, 623 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 1: reader Ravager, which would you know? Devour Tome after Tome 624 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,520 Speaker 1: of Ancient Lord, teaching kids a valuable lesson that reading 625 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 1: isn't just fun, it's downright delicious. Nice YouTube announced that 626 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,520 Speaker 1: they would offer the entire database of videos on DVD 627 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: because there's nothing like web content on DVD, right, So 628 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,800 Speaker 1: if you wanted it, you could order it. It would 629 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,920 Speaker 1: require one seven five delivery trucks to carry all the 630 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 1: DVDs to your house, but you could get them. Of 631 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 1: course you couldn't really those the joke um stuffed on 632 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,840 Speaker 1: TV had a couple of different different jokes one of 633 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 1: the one one of them said that Apple was introducing 634 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,840 Speaker 1: a forty two inch iPad, which would have been enormous, 635 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,640 Speaker 1: And the other was that Apple and BlackBerry were collaborating 636 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,840 Speaker 1: to build a new smartphone called the Crumble, and it 637 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,160 Speaker 1: looked like it looked like a BlackBerry smartphone with an 638 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:34,280 Speaker 1: Apple on screen interface. Yeah. Google of course went nuts 639 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,920 Speaker 1: in Yeah they had that. They had that great um 640 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,759 Speaker 1: eight bit map, Yeah, the Nintendo in nes it was 641 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: Google Maps for the Nintendo in e s and it 642 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,960 Speaker 1: was it turned Google Maps into an eight bit version 643 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,319 Speaker 1: and it worked everywhere. Yeah, I mean, I mean they 644 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,840 Speaker 1: built it. Yeah, they created that thing. This wasn't entirely 645 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:53,680 Speaker 1: a joke. There was a really long time where you 646 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,880 Speaker 1: could actually switch it to that mode. I wonder if 647 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,640 Speaker 1: you still can. I haven't. I didn't try, but there's 648 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,239 Speaker 1: a little there's a little um uh linker icon do. Yeah, 649 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:03,880 Speaker 1: there was something where you could switch it over, and 650 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 1: it was it was just hilarious, like everything it looked 651 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,920 Speaker 1: like everything was Legend of Zelda and and so you 652 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:10,919 Speaker 1: could look at your own neighborhood as if it were 653 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,239 Speaker 1: part of Legend of Zelda, which I thought was fantastic. Yeah, 654 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,480 Speaker 1: the Google Racing was announced, which was going to be 655 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 1: autonomous nascars, right, so, because the big story about the 656 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,400 Speaker 1: Google autonomous car was still in the news at that point. Uh, 657 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,360 Speaker 1: I mean they've been They've been in the news for 658 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,480 Speaker 1: a while at that point. But yeah, I was kind 659 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,320 Speaker 1: of funny to have the idea of these these driverless 660 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,680 Speaker 1: cars competing against each other in a in a race. 661 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 1: Chrome got multitask support, which allowed multiple cursors to be 662 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 1: on the screen at the same time. Anyone who has 663 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,759 Speaker 1: used any of the collaborative tools that Google made, like 664 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:48,520 Speaker 1: Google Wave things like that. It allows multiple people to 665 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,799 Speaker 1: edit the same document at the same time and you 666 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,799 Speaker 1: actually see the edits in real time. So if you've 667 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,279 Speaker 1: ever had that experience where multiple people were working on 668 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,320 Speaker 1: the same thing all at once, mostly to mess with 669 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,239 Speaker 1: each other, it's it's funny and irritating. Now, now I 670 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,160 Speaker 1: mentioned that where everyone's got control of a different cursor 671 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 1: on your screen, that would be a night pretty great. 672 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,920 Speaker 1: That two thousand was also the year of street Row, 673 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,920 Speaker 1: which would would the kangaroo with a with a camera 674 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,000 Speaker 1: on it, which would allow them to cover those tricky 675 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:20,799 Speaker 1: parts of the Australian outback that are otherwise unreachable by 676 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:26,759 Speaker 1: They also had Google Fiber bars. They were bars of 677 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,800 Speaker 1: fiber stuff that you would eat like actual snack bars. 678 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:34,440 Speaker 1: Optical fiber. No, no, it's supposed to be like fiber fiber, 679 00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,160 Speaker 1: get your fiber, but that it was. It was based 680 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:42,280 Speaker 1: on an algorithm that would uh analyze what your body 681 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:46,239 Speaker 1: needed and provide you exactly the nutrition that you that 682 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 1: you required at that time. Yeah, let's see. Sony unveiled 683 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,239 Speaker 1: a point seven to five inch Vio Ultra Book Q 684 00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,080 Speaker 1: series with eight gigabytes of RAM ten ADP resolution and 685 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 1: come on tin ADP resolution when it's point seven five inches, 686 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,799 Speaker 1: that's easy. It's still like three pixels. And then the 687 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,240 Speaker 1: a m D radio on h D sixty six fifty 688 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:13,680 Speaker 1: graphics card, which that was the picture was like a 689 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,799 Speaker 1: person holding this tiny little thing in the palm of 690 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,279 Speaker 1: their hand. It could fit in your pocket because it's 691 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:22,480 Speaker 1: three quarters of an inch. Reddit that year had the 692 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,360 Speaker 1: introduced the Reddit timeline because that was when Facebook was 693 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,600 Speaker 1: switching over to timeline and everyone was was freaking the 694 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 1: heck out, as people do about Facebook changes, which which 695 00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 1: extended from from all the way to the beginning of 696 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,960 Speaker 1: time until the heat death of the universe, right, so 697 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,560 Speaker 1: you could look at the headlines of any given time 698 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,279 Speaker 1: from like pre history to the future exactly. It was fantastic. 699 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:48,120 Speaker 1: Virgin announced Virgin Volcanic, which was a vehicle that would 700 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:52,439 Speaker 1: allow you to visit the center of the Earth. Oh right, yeah, yeah. 701 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,920 Speaker 1: It looked like a cork screw, like a like a 702 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,080 Speaker 1: really like super high tech cork screw thing. Yeah yeah. 703 00:37:58,080 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 1: Seth Green was going to be on that. They all 704 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,840 Speaker 1: had announced that they would start to accept a new currency. 705 00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,440 Speaker 1: The currency would be tied to the British pound, but 706 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 1: it was a currency specific to Virgin Mobile, So anyone 707 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,200 Speaker 1: who has been to a theme park that has theme 708 00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:15,960 Speaker 1: park specific money essentially the same idea. Of course, the 709 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,320 Speaker 1: the unit of currency for Virgin was called the Branson 710 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,759 Speaker 1: of course. Yeah, I mean I wonder, how could it 711 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:26,680 Speaker 1: not be? Yeah, yeah, my favorite isn't you know, terribly 712 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,160 Speaker 1: tech related except for it happened on Facebook George t 713 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:30,960 Speaker 1: k announced that there was going to be a new 714 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,560 Speaker 1: Star Trek film coming out that that he was going 715 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,719 Speaker 1: to play the captain in and And. I wanted this 716 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,719 Speaker 1: movie so badly. I was so excited about it for 717 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,480 Speaker 1: like two and a half minutes until I realized it 718 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,280 Speaker 1: was able, until you realize what day it was. Yeah, 719 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,759 Speaker 1: you know, in the past, I've actually got people a 720 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:53,000 Speaker 1: few times with some great Yeah, Like I posted one 721 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,839 Speaker 1: year that I was developing a story and I had 722 00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,040 Speaker 1: pitched it and that it was had actually been accepted 723 00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,040 Speaker 1: and I was going to fly out to Hollywood to 724 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:05,920 Speaker 1: to have a discussion about making a movie about a 725 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:10,440 Speaker 1: pair of scientists who are both studying the human genome 726 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:16,319 Speaker 1: and had identified the genes that guide aging, and they 727 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,520 Speaker 1: wanted to try and find a way where they could 728 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,680 Speaker 1: stop aging, so that, you know, the cellular death is 729 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:25,160 Speaker 1: no longer a problem. You could you could theoretically live 730 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,719 Speaker 1: forever as long as nothing terrible happened to you, like 731 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,319 Speaker 1: you know, you don't you could. You would still die 732 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:30,960 Speaker 1: if you got hit by a bus, but otherwise you 733 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:36,200 Speaker 1: would live in definitely right, And that they because of 734 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,080 Speaker 1: funding issues or whatever, the whole system is shut down. 735 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,120 Speaker 1: And so they both independently of each other. And there's 736 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:43,879 Speaker 1: a man and a woman and they both love each other, 737 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,000 Speaker 1: but they have not expressed their love to one another. 738 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:50,960 Speaker 1: They independently do tests on themselves, but for one of 739 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,799 Speaker 1: them it speeds up the aging process and for the 740 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,879 Speaker 1: other it reverses the aging process. And so they begin 741 00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,520 Speaker 1: to age apart from one another as the love story 742 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,439 Speaker 1: unfall olds. And the question is when is the love story? 743 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,120 Speaker 1: Is the love story going to actually be a thing, 744 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,920 Speaker 1: or is it going to have to stop? So that 745 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,440 Speaker 1: was my that was my pitch I was trying to 746 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,480 Speaker 1: think of. I was literally sitting there thinking like one 747 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:17,279 Speaker 1: of the most stupid story I can think of, and 748 00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,960 Speaker 1: I typed that up here's the thing. That joke came 749 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,040 Speaker 1: back to bite me because everyone said, no, you have 750 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:27,000 Speaker 1: to write this now. I'm like, but that's a dumb story. 751 00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:31,680 Speaker 1: I want to see that story. So well yeah, but then, 752 00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:35,560 Speaker 1: you know, that was before the Benjamin Button film had 753 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,760 Speaker 1: come out, so that one, I said, you know, Benjamin 754 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,359 Speaker 1: Button essentially tells that story in a way. It's not 755 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,200 Speaker 1: you know, not it's not a literal translation of that, 756 00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,279 Speaker 1: but it's very similar. So when that came out, I 757 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,080 Speaker 1: was like, nope, nope, someone else has already done it, 758 00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,160 Speaker 1: and they did it probably better than I would have anyway. 759 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,840 Speaker 1: So but I've I've done similar jokes like that a 760 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,920 Speaker 1: couple of times, and usually I get people believing me 761 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,359 Speaker 1: for about half an hour and then some one we'll 762 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,319 Speaker 1: figure it out. And as soon as someone figures it out, 763 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,000 Speaker 1: they post and then everyone goes right, and I'm like, thanks, 764 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,560 Speaker 1: you know, you could you could just sit there and 765 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,799 Speaker 1: send me a message and say good good April Fool's joke. 766 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,640 Speaker 1: But no, you have to ruin it for everybody, or 767 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:18,240 Speaker 1: I have to delete your comment. I'm not above such things. 768 00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,560 Speaker 1: Well anyway, So it's it's interesting. I'm curious to see 769 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,080 Speaker 1: what happens this year. Like I said, by the time 770 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,279 Speaker 1: this podcast goes live, you guys have probably seen quite 771 00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:31,319 Speaker 1: a few examples of the ridiculous stuff that happens, Uh 772 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,440 Speaker 1: and I do. My heart goes out to all of 773 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:38,080 Speaker 1: my tech journalist peers who are exhausted by April Fool's 774 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,800 Speaker 1: Day and find no joy in it whatsoever and only 775 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,279 Speaker 1: see it as an irritable event that happens on a 776 00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:47,680 Speaker 1: yearly basis and they cannot wait for April second. Just 777 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,800 Speaker 1: just think about think about that that street Roo and 778 00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 1: um and UH and George and I didn't mention it, 779 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,920 Speaker 1: but one year Codex said that they had print They 780 00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:57,560 Speaker 1: had created a three D printer that would allow you 781 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:01,319 Speaker 1: to print live kittens. It was like kitten printer. Just 782 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:06,040 Speaker 1: think think of the kitten printer, the kitten printer. That 783 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,360 Speaker 1: that should just make you feel better, all right. So, 784 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,520 Speaker 1: if you guys have any favorite jokes, maybe there's something 785 00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,680 Speaker 1: that we did not cover, but it's something you're familiar 786 00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:15,719 Speaker 1: with them, you think we should should have talked about it. 787 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,560 Speaker 1: Why don't you us knows send us an email or 788 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,520 Speaker 1: ad justus as tech stuff at Discovery dot com. We'll 789 00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:22,640 Speaker 1: drop us a line on Facebook or Twitter. We'd love 790 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:24,840 Speaker 1: to hear from you. We always are happy to accept 791 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:28,360 Speaker 1: any suggestions for future episodes. You can find us on 792 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,080 Speaker 1: Facebook and Twitter with the handle text stuff H s 793 00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,480 Speaker 1: W and Lauren and I will talk to you again 794 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:43,200 Speaker 1: really soon. For more on this and thousands of other topics. 795 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:54,040 Speaker 1: Does it have staff works dot com