April Fools’ Day: Chaos on the Internet

Google is big – and it has a lot of jokes.From the headquarters of Google – to change the name to the Topeka (the town of Topeka, Kansas took the name of Google for a month).

Two of the most popular sites – ” vkontakte.ru” and “citanik Runeta” – change the language of their interfaces adopted in pre-revolutionary Russia in the early XX century – and the language was replaced with a characteristic of that era. It turned out funny, although not too original. In the case of ” citanik ” -also with errors.



No less amusing news came from the British Google: there “was invented» Google Translate, translating to human language to animal and vice versa.
On YouTube users have proposed to save the channel and watch the video in text mode.

“Yandex”
“Yandex” clearly lags behind its Western competitors.
First, the company launched the site “Day of British scientists” on the activities of people in this strange profession, who do not get tired to please the domestic press their “discoveries” all year round.
The second interesting pastime from a Yandex was searching for images. When first calling him a picture of extradition overturned.

If you search all grew back from his head to his feet, so that users suffered a question: to make fun of them, or they happened clouding his mind.

Feel the power
The site Reddit – newsletter web2.0-aggregator – all users have given administrative rights.Surprisingly, it really works: you can edit the titles and ban users. Chaos.
The popular comic xkcd offered users navigate the site using unix-like console. You could even “delete” files – and the site behaved as if they were actually removed.