Was It An April Fools Joke Or Not?
Roger Born Columnist, The Macintosh Continuum Wednesday, 04/07/04 This is a cool site: The Museum of April Fools Jokes. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/aprilfool2.html It was revealed today that out of the top one hundred April Fools hoaxes that are listed at the URL above, the one at MyMac.com will take the number one spot this month. Hundreds of thousands of hits at the site of the latest April Fools joke at MyMac.com inundated its servers for several hours on the First of April this year, causing several news agencies to pick up the story, which was a short blog by a writer at MyMac.com. The joke was in the form of a free source of electricity utilizing Nicola Tesla’s Ground Generator, which is a rather obscure unworking invention by the famous discoverer of electricity and inventor of Alternating Current. The hoax pretended that by adding modern electrical devices such as an off-the-shelf phase shift converter and a DC/AC power converter to a ground generator and a Telsa Coil, a subs
