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'''[[April 1]], [[2002]]''' was an [[April Fool's Day]] falling on a [[Monday]]. Hoaxes for this year included:

* [[The Register]]: [http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/24652.html reported] [[AOL]] buying up [[weblog]]s (AOL actually later bought [[Weblogs, Inc.]])
* The [[Open Directory Project]] [http://[email protected]/April-01-2002_GOD_PR.html re-branded] itself as the 'Microsoft Directory Project'
* [[Kuro5hin]] [http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/1/05035/09001 acquired] [[MetaFilter]], renaming it to met4filter.org
* [[Slashdot]] [http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/01/1452256.shtml?tid=124 announced] that it would start posting advertiser-sponsored news stories, and disable anonymous posting.
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*[[Alex McLeish]], manager of [[Scotland|Scotish]] [[Football_%28soccer%29|football club]] [[Rangers_fc|Rangers]] announced the signing of seventeen year old [[Turkey|Turkish]] player ''Arilo Flaydops'' in a £5 million deal, his name is infact an acronym of "April Fool's Day" but many [[United Kingdom|British]] newspapers covered the story. {{noMention}}

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