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Google has often adopted a light-hearted approach in a variety of circumstances. The most popular instances of Google Humor are the April Fool Jokes. Google has had a tradition of perpetrating
April Fool's Day hoaxes....." Extracted from wikipedia.
So google made 2 hoaxes this month:
Gmail PaperAt about 10:00 PM Pacific time (where Google has its headquarters) the day before April 1,
2007, Google changed the login page for Gmail to announce a new service called Gmail Paper. The service offered to allow users of Google's
free webmail service to add e-mails to a "Paper Archive," which Google would print (on "96% post-consumer organic soybean
sputum") and mail via traditional post. The service would be free, supported by bold, red advertisements printed on the back of the printed messages. Image attachments would also be printed on high-quality glossy paper and be postmarked with their message, though MP3 and WAV files would not be printed. The page detailing more information about the service features photographs of Ian Spiro and Carrie Kemper, current employees of Google. Also featured are Product Marketing Managers of Gmail Anna-Christina Douglas, and Kevin Systrom.
Google TiSP
Google TiSP was a fictitious free
broadband service supposedly released by Google. This service would make use of a standard toilet and
sewage lines to provide free Internet connectivity at a speed of 8 Mbps (or up to 32 Mbps with a paid plan). A user drops a weighted end of a long, Google-supplied fiber-optic cable in their toilet and flushes it. Around 60 minutes later, the end would be recovered and connected to the Internet by a "Plumbing Hardware Dispatcher (PHD)." The user then connects their end to a Google-supplied wireless router and run the Google-supplied installation media on a Windows XP or Vista computer ("Mac and Linux support coming soon"). Alternatively, a user could request a professional installation, where Google would deploy nanobots through the plumbing to complete the process. The free service would be supported by "discreet DNA sequencing" of "personal bodily output" to display online ads that relate to culinary preferences and personal health.
(Information extracted from wikipedia at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_hoaxes).
Jajajaja, thats funny, so I sent the jokes to a couple of friends and those where their answers:
Juanma[16:35] Esteban 8A: esa gente de google esta como tesa, mira esto
[16:35] Esteban 8A:
http://www.google.com/tisp/[16:35] Robert: pa ver
[16:36] Esteban 8A: y este otro producto esta tambien muy sobrado
[16:36] Esteban 8A:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html[16:36] Robert: ushhh
[16:36] Robert: estan bien heavys
[16:36] Esteban 8A: si o q!!
[16:36] Robert: regalando banda inalanbrica banda ancha
[16:36] Robert: q tal
[16:37] Esteban 8A: increible o q !
[16:37] Robert: pero fijo debe ser unicamente US + Canada
[16:37] Robert: de eso tan bueno no llega a Col
Robert[16:35] Esteban 8A: eo, esa gente de google cada dia me descresta mas
[16:35] Esteban 8A:
http://www.google.com/tisp/[16:35] JuanMa: a ver home lacra
[16:36] Esteban 8A: y este otro producto esta tambien muy sobrado
[16:36] Esteban 8A:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html[16:36] JuanMa: aay marica como asi
[16:36] JuanMa: estan dando internet gratis?
[16:37] Esteban 8A: increible !
[16:37] JuanMa: ush !!
[16:37] JuanMa: y en donde es?
[16:37] Esteban 8A: en la usa !
[16:37] Esteban 8A: :(
[16:38] JuanMa: no pero es increible a lo bien
[16:38] JuanMa: quedo perplejo
[16:38] JuanMa: y que velocidad daran?
[16:38] Esteban 8A: 8mbps
[16:38] JuanMa: omg
[16:38] JuanMa: ush!
[16:41] Esteban 8A: viste el del papel ?
[16:41] JuanMa: estoy mirando como es la instalacion
Poveda[16:46] Esteban 8A: Viste los nuevos servicios de Google?
[16:46] Andres Poveda: Si home, pero no los entendi.
[16:46] Esteban 8A: Pues guevon, internet gratis, y el otro te envia tus correos impresos gratis.
[16:46] Andres Poveda: ah si?
[16:46] Andres Poveda: Q calidad
[16:46] Andres Poveda: Esa gente casi no tiene plata
The final conclusion is, you don't really know what to Expect or not expect from google this days.
Last weekend did with poveda mountainbinking. We started from Oviedo, then went throughout Envigado until "La Catedral" which is the place where Pablo Escobar built his famous jail (Getting up there was hard, everything was a hill and I wasn't in the best shape plus that it was raining), now you can't see anything of it, except a new house that was built above it (Honestly, I wouldn't have built in that zone..., kind of bad energy though).
The zone up there is now a Natural Area, so it was kind of funny to find a goat in the main gate as a pet.
After another rest, we started heading towards Medellin. Considering that we were in Caldas our shortest path would include passing by "La Estrella" followed by "Sabaneta" then "Envigado" and finally "El Poblado" to get to our beloved destination.
