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April 1, 2004
'''[[April 1]], [[2004]]''' was an [[April Fool's Day]]. Hoaxes for this year included:

*In [[April 1st RFC|a tradition]] dating back to at least [[1978]] ([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0748.txt RFC 748]), the [[IETF]] issues [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3751.txt 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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*[[Blizzard]] announced that [[World Of Warcraft]] would be adding Two-Headed Ogres as a playable race [http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/races/two-headed-ogre.shtml]. Also, they announced the addition of a new neutral hero for [[Warcraft III]]: the Goblin Tinker [http://www.battle.net/war3/neutral/goblintinker.shtml].
 Meanwhile [[Mythic Entertainment]], makers of [[Dark Age of Camelot]] announced a new expansion with a new player race of tiny tiny Spriggans [http://www.camelotherald.com/rots/].
*[[Freshmeat]] partners with [[Babelfish]] to enable (very poor) translations into over 52 languages [http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1142/]. The front page was also translated in [[rot13]].
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*The [[Guardian]] revealed that the [[1954]] [[World Cup]] winning [[German]] 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]