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April 1, 2004
'''[[April 1]] [[2004]]''' was an [[April Fool's Day]] that fell on a [[Thursday]]. Hoaxes for this year included:

*In [[April 1st RFC|a tradition]] dating back to at least [[1978]] (RFC 748), the [[IETF]] issues RFC 3751, Omniscience Protocol Requirements, written by Scott Bradner, the Secretary and VP of Standards for the [[Internet Society]]. See [[April 1st RFC]].
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* The author of [[The Best Page in the Universe]] temporarily changed around the website to a parody of [[newbie]]s.
* Australian Broadband Community website [[Whirlpool_(web site)|Whirlpool]] announced that Telstra was going to "kill off" its cable service in favour of its ADSL service. [http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm?id=1256&show=all]
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* [[DVD]] news website, [http://www.dvdfile.com dvdfile.com], reported that the entire [[General Hospital]] [[soap opera]] would be released on June 22, boasting a 55 disc set of all 252 episodes from the 38th season.

Genuine events that had been interpreted as April Fools included:

*The [[National Archives (UK)]] revealed that during the [[Cold War]], there were British plans to use [[chicken]]s to regulate the temperature in a [[nuclear bomb]].[http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1183684,00.html]
*[[The Guardian]] revealed that the [[Football World Cup 1954|1954 World Cup]]-winning [[Germany national football team|Germany team]] may have been given performance-enhancing injections.[http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1183266,00.html]
*The [[Associated Press]] reported that [[Google]] would launch an [http://gmail.google.com/ e-mail service] with 1 GB of storage for each user. [http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html]
*[[The Register]] [http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/36707.html], [[Web Hosting Industry News]] [http://thewhir.com/features/subdomain.cfm] and [[Slashdot]] [http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/30/0240215] report that [[Ideaflood, Inc.]] has filed a [[patent]] on the idea of user [[subdomain]]s and is now attempting to collect royalties from various websites.

==See also==
* [[Wikipedia:Not another page of bad jokes and other deleted nonsense/April Fools 2004]]
* [[Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense#April_Fools.27|more Wikipedia entries from April 1 2004]]

== External link ==
* [http://www.urgo.org/aprilfools.html A long list of supposed 2004 April Fool's]

[[Category:April Fool's Day]]

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