April Fools
From Mefi Wiki
Site-wide jokes.
- 2009 - disemvowelling to "reclaim some bandwidth costs."
- 2008 - gradual color change, recaps one & two
- Due to recurring accidents, pb eventually disabled the code. boo_radley posted Greasemonkey scripts to recreate the effect.
- 2007 - fun AskMe questions
- 2006 - nothing happened. discussion.
- 2005 - nothing happened. discussion.
- 2004 - Metafilter was a wiki (recap) - no archive found.
- 2003 - Mefi was bought by Google. (screenshot via archive.org)
- 2002 - kuro5hin merger: met4filter. (screenshot via archive.org)
- May 2001 - admission that mefi was populated by Eliza bots, not people (via archive.org) @ sorry.metafilter.com - recap
- 2001 - nothing happened. Mathowie ran out of time.
- 2000 - For Metafilter's first April Fools, the front page looks like Scripting News. (The images don't work.)
