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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 owner of [[DeadJournal]] announced that [[LiveJournal]] will take over operation of his site. [http://www.deadjournal.com/community/new_shit/34659.html]
* 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]
* [[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:

(contracted; show full)* [[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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