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Google frequently inserts jokes and hoaxes into its products on April Fools' Day, which takes place on April 1.
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2000[edit]
Google's first April Fools' Day hoax, the MentalPlex hoax, invited users to project a mental image of what they wanted to find whilst staring at an animated GIF.[1] Several humorous error messages[2] were then displayed on the search results page,[3] all listed below:
- Error 001: KUT Weak or no signal detected. Upgrade transmitter and retry.
- Error 666: Multiple transmitters detected. Silence voices in your head and try again.
- Error 01: Brainwaves received in analog. Please re-think in digital.
- Error 8P: Unclear on whether your search is about money or monkeys. Please try again.
- Error 005: Searching on this topic is prohibited under international law.
- Error CKR8: That information is protected under the National Security Act.
- Error 144: That information was lost with the Martian Lander. Please try again.
- Error 006: Query is unclear. Try again after removing hat, glasses and shoes.
- Error 008: Interference detected. Remove aluminum foil and remote control devices.
- Error: Insufficient conviction. Please clap hands 3 times, while chanting 'I believe' and try again.
- Error: MentalPlex™ has determined that this is not your final answer. Please try again.
An additional error message was included which converted all navigation text to German, but was scrapped after user complaints.[4]
2002[edit]
Google reveals the technology behind its PageRank Systems—PigeonRank. Google touts the benefits of this cost-effective and efficient means of ranking pages and reassures readers that there is no animal cruelty involved in the process. The article makes many humorous references and puns based on computer terminology and how Google PageRank really works, (for example, a chart showing the pigeons' consumption of linseed and flax, represented as 'Lin/Ax Kernels,' a pun on the Linux kernel).[5]
2004[edit]
Fictitious job opportunities for a research center on the moon. Luna/X (a pun to Linux and the Latin word for moon, as well as a reference to both the Windows XP visual style and Mac OS X) is the name of a new operating system they claimed to have created for working at the research center.
- Google Job Opportunities: Google Copernicus Center is hiring [6]
Google also announced Gmail on April 1, with an unprecedented and unbelievable free 1 GB space, compared to e.g. Hotmail's 2 MB. The announcement of Gmail was written in an unserious jokey language normally seen in April Fools' jokes, tricking many into thinking that it was an April Fools' joke. In reality, it was a double fake, in that the announced product was serious.[7]
2005 [edit]
Google Gulp, a fictitious drink, was announced by Google in 2005. According to the company, this beverage would optimize one's use of the Google search engine by increasing the drinker's intelligence. It was claimed this boost was achieved through real-time analysis of the user's DNA and carefully tailored adjustments to neurotransmitters in the brain (a patented technology termed Auto-Drink; as the 'Google Gulp FAQ' suggests, partly through MAO inhibition). The drink was said to come in '4 great flavors': Glutamate Grape (glutamic acid), Sugar-Free Radical (free radicals), Beta Carroty (Beta-Carotene), and Sero-Tonic Water (serotonin).[8]
This hoax was probably intended as a parody of Google's then invite-only email service called Gmail. Although ostensibly free, the company claimed the beverage could only be obtained by returning the cap of a Google Gulp bottle to a local grocery store: a Catch-22. In the Google Gulp FAQ, Google replies to the observation 'I mean, isn't this whole invite-only thing kind of bogus?' by saying 'Dude, it's like you've never even heard of viral marketing.'
- Google Gulp[9]
- Google Gulp FAQ[10]
2006[edit]
On April Fool's Day 2006, Google Romance was announced on the main Google search page with the introduction, 'Dating is a search problem. Solve it with Google Romance.' It pretends to offer a 'Soulmate Search' to send users on a 'Contextual Date'. A parody of online dating, it had a link for 'those who generally favor the 'throw enough stuff at the wall' approach to online dating' to Post multiple profiles with a bulk upload file, you sleaze in addition to Post your Google Romance profile. Clicking on either of these gave an error page, which explained that it was an April Fool's joke and included links to previous April Fool's jokes.
- Google Romance[11]
- Google Romance FAQ[12]
- Google Romance Tour[13]
2007[edit]
Gmail Paper[edit]
At about 10:00 pm, Pacific time (where Google has its headquarters) on March 30, 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, 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 Shane Lawrence.
- Gmail Paper Index[14]
- Gmail Paper Announcement[15]
- Gmail Paper Program Policies[16]
Google TiSP[edit]
Google TiSP (short for Toilet Internet Service Provider) 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 Mbit/s (2 Mbit/s upload) (or up to 32 Mbit/s with a paid plan). The user would drop a weighted end of a long, Google-supplied fiber-optic cable in their toilet and flush it. Around 60 minutes later, the end would be recovered and connected to the Internet by a 'Plumbing Hardware Dispatcher (PHD)'. The user would then connect their end to a Google-supplied wireless router and run the Google-supplied installation media on a Windows XP or Windows Vista computer ('Mac and Linux support coming soon'). Alternatively, a user could request a professional installation, in which 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. Google also referenced the diet coke-and-Mentos reaction in their FAQ: 'If you're still experiencing problems, drop eight mints into the bowl and add a two-liter bottle of diet soda.' They also claim that Enterprise plans will include support in the event of backup problems, brownouts and data wipes.
- Google TiSP[17]
- Google TiSP FAQ[18]
- Installation page[19]
- Press Release page[20]
- Not found page – April fools version[21]
2008[edit]
Blogger 'Google Weblogs (beta)'[edit]
The Blogger dashboard featured an announcement for Google Weblogs, or 'GWeblogs,' or 'Gblogs,' the next revolution in personal publishing. Features include algorithms putting the user's best content at the top of the user's blog (rather than publishing by reverse chronology), automatically populating the blog's sidebar with the most relevant content, posting directly into Google search results for maximum visibility, blog headers refreshed with images from Google's team of artists for anniversaries of a scientific achievement (similar to Google Doodle), and automatic content generation ('Unsure of what to post about? Just click 'I'm Feeling Lucky' and we'll 'take care' of the rest!')
The announcement was followed by a link to a video tour of the product, which actually led to Tay Zonday's cover of Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up.'
- Blogger Buzz: The Official Buzz from Blogger at Google: Announcing Google Weblogs (beta)[22]
Dajare[edit]
Google launches Dajare in Japan (google.co.jp), with the mission of 'organizing the world's laughter.'[23]
gDay[edit]
Google announced gDay in Australia, a new beta search technology that will search web pages 24 hours before they are created.[24] The name is a play on the phrase 'g'day'.
- gDay[25]
Gmail Custom Time[edit]
Gmail's sign-in page and a banner at the top of each Gmail inbox announced a new feature, called Gmail Custom Time, that would allow its users to 'pre-date' their messages and choose to have the message appear as 'read' or 'unread'. The new feature uses the slogan 'Be on time. Every time.'
Around 11:00 pm EST March 31, 2008, on the newer and older version of Gmail, but not in the basic HTML version, in the upper right corner, next to Settings, a link appeared labeled, 'New! Gmail Custom Time'. The link led to a 404 error until April 1,[26][27] when it led to the full Gmail Custom Time hoax page.[28] Clicking any of the three links at the bottom of the page brought the user to a page stating that Gmail Custom time was, in fact, their April Fool's Day joke.
Google Book Search Scratch and Sniff[edit]
Google Book Search has a new section allowing users to 'scratch and sniff' certain books. Users are asked to '..please place your nose near the monitor and click 'Go', which then 'loads odors'. When clicking on 'Help', users are redirected to a page in a book that describes the origins of April Fools' Day.[29]
- Inside Google Book Search Blog: 'Google Book Search now smells better'[30]
Google Calendar is Feeling Lucky[edit]
Google added the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button to its calendar feature. When a user tries to create a new event, the user was given the regular option of entering the correct details and hitting 'Create Event', and also the new option of 'I'm Feeling Lucky' which would set the user up with an evening date with, among others, Matt Damon, Eric Cartman, Tom Cruise, Jessica Alba, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears, Anna Kournikova, Johnny Depp, George W. Bush, or Lois Griffin.
Google Manpower Search[edit]
Google launched Manpower Search (谷歌人肉搜索) in China (google.cn). The feature was presented as being powered by 25 million volunteers who conducted searches around the clock. When the user entered a keyword, volunteers would search any possible answers from a mass of paper documents as well as online resources. The user was expected to get the search result within 32 seconds. The 'search' button would avoid the user's cursor.[citation needed]
Google Saturi Translate[edit]
Google Korea announced that 'Google Saturi (사투리, Korean dialect) Translate' had been opened on April 1, 2008. When the user tried to use this translator, a message appeared, explaining that it was April Fools' Day event and was not executable.[31]
Google Talk[edit]
Google announced plans to, on April 22, 2008 (Earth Day), shorten all conversations over Google Talk thereby reducing the energy required to transmit chats in an effort to reduce carbon output.
- Google Talk Goes Green[32]
Google Wake Up Kit[edit]
Google launched their 'Wake Up Kit' as a calendar notification option.
The 'wake up' notification uses several progressively more annoying alerts to wake one up. First it will send an SMS message to their phone. If that fails, more coercive means will be used. The kit includes an industrial-sized bucket and is designed to be connected to their water main for automatic filling. In addition, a bed-flipping device is included for forceful removal from their sleeping quarters.
Virgle[edit]
Google announced a joint project with the Virgin Group to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. This operation has been named Project Virgle.[33] The announcement includes videos of Richard Branson (founder of Virgin Group) as well as Larry Page and Sergey Brin (the founders of Google) on YouTube, talking about Virgle.[34] An 'application' to join the settlement includes questions such as:
I am a world-class expert in:
After the user submitted the application, the site notifies the user that the user is not fit for space, or that the user's application is fine and 'all you have to do is submit your video' [as a response to their video on YouTube]. As a result, an open source Virgle group has been established, OpenVirgle.[35] On the FAQ page, the final question is 'Okay, come on – seriously. Is this Virgle thing for real?' The reply links to a page that tells the user it's an April Fool's joke, and then mentions that the user 'Dragged us out of our lovely little fantasy world, to crush all our hopes and dreams.'
- Virgle Application Page – Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes[36]
Yogurt[edit]
Google's Orkut displayed its name as yogurt.
YouTube[edit]
On April 1, 2008, all featured videos on the UK and Australian homepages, and later, all international homepages, of Google-owned YouTube linked to a video of Rick Astley's song 'Never Gonna Give You Up', causing all users of the website who clicked on featured videos to be Rickrolled.
This was the first year YouTube participated in Google's April Fool's Day tradition.
2009[edit]
Google runs on Microsoft Windows IIS/3.0[edit]
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google.com.au reported as if it ran on IIS/3.0[37] and google.com on Apache/0.8.4[38] (on Linux).
CADIE[edit]
The announcement of CADIE was made on 31 March 2009 11:59 pm by the CADIE Team, not on April 1. The announcement on the Google blog was made at 2009/04/01 12:01:00 am.
The introduction page and all of the references to CADIE in Google's Products were taken down on April 2, replaced with a message stating'
We apologize for the recent disruption(s) to our service(s).
Please stand by while order is being restored.
However the technology page describing the technical capabilities of the software remained at: Technical Description[39]
When using Google Books or GMail, a user would come across an announcement dated March 31, 2009 at 11:59:59, declaring a new 'Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity'. CADIE is also mentioned[40] on the gBall FAQ page: 'Google's new CADIE technology will interpret the data obtained from each ball to provide useful tips to owners'. There was also a link on Google's Homepage[41] for CADIE, and a blog entry[42] in Google's official blog.
CADIE technology is also used to generate 'senryu'[43] (a type of Japanese poem similar to haiku) based on search terms for certain Japanese queries.
The Google Search homepage[44] had a link to the CADIE announcement,[45] stating that 'For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster.' The page links to the blog below.
On mobile devices, a link shows up to Brain Search,[46] which uses CADIE technology to 'index your brain'.[47]
Gmail[edit]
When one is using the Gmail service, they will notice that it has a new option,[48] named 'Gmail Autopilot' in which the service would analyze an email. On that page it says under the FAQ section,'You can adjust tone, typo propensity, and preferred punctuation from the Autopilot tab under Settings.' However, if a person logs into their Gmail account and goes under the Settings tab they will notice that there is no Autopilot tab. The program could be customized to contain certain types of grammatical or spelling errors, as well as complexity and length of the sentence. It also has a way of responding to relationship related messages, such as if someone spoke aggressively, even in a humorous way, the system would 'terminate relationship.'
gBall[edit]
Google Australia announced the development of a ball that will change how Australian Football is played the world over.The newest football technology—'gBall'[49] —is a prototype ball for use in the Australian Football League with GPS.
Google Australia[50] announced ('New! Get the newest football technology – gBall.') that they are developing a prototype ball[51] for use in the Australian Football League with GPS. Apparently, the ball will measure the location, force, and torque of a kick, and 'vibrate if player agents or talent scouts want to speak to you'. Google claimed that the ball will cost $10 with a cost-per-kick set of payments in addition to the basic fee.
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Google Analytics[edit]
A blog post to the Google Analytics Blog investigates the analytics reports of CADIEs activities.[52]
Google Maps[edit]
Google's CADIE has a recommended places to visit using Google Maps. Viewing 'CADIE's recommended places for humans'[53] one will see each of her suggested places listed, that, when clicked, displays a photo and humorous commentary.
There is also a 'CADIE's recommended places for humans'[54] link in Google Maps, which leads to the 'Panda Mapplet' and includes several marked locations with 'CADIE's' commentary. Under Redmond WA a link is listed which will rick roll the viewer.
Blogger[edit]
CADIE's personal blog/homepage[55]
Google Chrome with 3D[edit]
A version of Google Chrome was offered rendering web pages in Anaglyph 3D, 'powered' by CADIE. A 3D effect was actually possible with this browser, but it only made the window appear to be sunken into the monitor.
- Introducing Google Chrome with 3D[56]
Google Earth Powered by CADIE[edit]
Google announced a new Google Earth powered by CADIE,[57] which claimed to allow the user to see ocean terrain imagery from the world's most advanced submarine, explore the deep sea, soar with CADIE in real time, view CADIE's Recommended Summer Vacation, and chat with CADIE, among other options.
Google Code[edit]
The Google Code Search homepage[58] is featuring LOLCODE examples.
CADIE is set to write code by itself[59] based on specified features; however all that is returned is bad code or witty criticisms of the user's request and choice of programming language, recommending the use of INTERCAL.
CADIE's source code was supposedly uploaded to Google Code,[60][61] but she changed her mind and replaced it with a 'fun program'[62] consisting of 31 lines of INTERCAL. When executed, this program prints out the message 'I do not feel like sharing.'
Google Book Search[edit]
CADIE recommends some books at Google Book Search homepage. Also, when viewing a book, there is a Generate book report button. When clicked it says 'Gotcha! It's April Fools' Day! Sorry, but you'll have to actually read the book yourself.'
Google Docs on Demand[edit]
Google has announced new Google Docs features[63] enhanced by CADIE
Add subliminal messages and images to documents.
If a person makes a new presentation and looks for the subliminal message and image buttons under the insert menu they will notice it is not there.
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Google Mobile[edit]
Google Mobile has a link to 'Brain Search'.[65] The instructions are to 'Put phone to forehead for brain indexing' and 'Think your query'. When the user clicks 'Try Now', a page loads with 'Brain indexing' status. When indexing is complete, a button comes up with 'search me'. By clicking this button, the user is directed to fake search results. There are several possible results:
- What's the name of that woman by the window? She's my boss's boss, but, oh man, is it Suzanne? Susan? Blanche?[66]
- Should I order the pizza? I don't remember if it makes me gassy.[67]
- Wow, cute guy. Should I go up to him?[68]
- Why is everyone looking at me so strangely?[69]
- When is Mom's birthday? I should send her a card.[70]
Google Knol[edit]
Knol was updated so that all of the featured articles were about Artificial Intelligence, with a message from CADIE indicating that this 'improvement' was for the good of mankind.
HTTP Headers[edit]
In keeping with the CADIE theme Google has altered the server HTTP header to contain the name of various AI entities, including HAL 9000, WOPR, and GLaDOS.[71]
Other server HTTP headers found were IIS/Bob (a reference to Microsoft Bob), IIS/Clippy (a reference to Clippy), IIS/3.0, Netscape iPlanet, Chrome/3.0, Google Operating System (BETA), CERN/3.0 (a reference to CERN HTTPd), Apple (a reference to Apple II), IRIX, MCP, Apache/0.8.4, Conficker, and Skynet.
Oil Tanker Data Center[edit]
During the last minutes of Google's Data Center Efficiency Summit,[72]Urs Hoelzle presented in a 'special topic': Google had bought an oil tanker, the 'M/S Sergey', where Google's data center containers were being submerged in oil tanks to enable extremely high-efficiency cooling. The presentation can be seen in the video on YouTube, and includes slightly customized Wikipedia images from thearticle Oil tanker, including a retouched photo of commercial oil tanker AbQaiq and the oil tankers side view graphic.
Even though Google did apply for a US patent to build data centers on cargo ships[73] and oil cooling is an existing technology, summit attendee James Hamilton believed this topic to be an April Fools joke.[citation needed] The ship's name 'M/S Sergey' is also likely to be a pun on Google's co-founder Sergey Brin.
2010[edit]
Google and Topeka, Kansas, Switch Places [edit]
In early March, the city of Topeka, Kansas, temporarily changed its name to Google in an attempt to capture a spot in Google's new broadband/fiber-optics project. Then, on April 1 (April Fools' Day), Google jokingly announced that it would be changing its name to Topeka, to 'honor that moving gesture' and changed its home page to say Topeka in place of the Google logo.[74][75]
Google Books available in Anachrome 3D[edit]
Google books introduced a feature which allows any book to be read in 3D, assuming the viewer has appropriate glasses. It was enabled by clicking the 'View in 3D' button in the menu bar above the book. This feature was removed after April 1, but on June 29, 2010, Google announced its restoration.[76][77]Google also released the latest form of 3D glasses, similar to the pairs one would use today when seeing a film.
Store anything on Google Docs[edit]
Google announced[78] that Google Docs will have the capacity to upload anything, including physical objects like keys, remote controls, etc. The site[79] declared that one could use this to find items like keys using CTRL-F and send objects around the globe by 'uploading' and 'downloading' them, at the low price of $0.10 per kg.
Search results generated in different units[edit]
Google's search results page displayed the time taken to load the results in different units from seconds. Several of these are pop culture references, as with 1.21 gigawatts, while others refer to slang:
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YouTube ASCII video filter[edit]
The logo of YouTube was overlaid with ASCII text repeating the character '1'.[80] The YouTube logo was a reference to some videos having a new quality setting, namely 'TEXTp'. According to a notice underneath the videos, viewing the video with this quality setting enabled allowed YouTube to save one US dollar ($1) per second on bandwidth costs. The notice also remarked on the source of this new 'feature,' wishing the reader a happy April Fool's Day.
However, in accordance with the announcement, the video quality on many videos was indeed able to be set to 'TEXTp' and video output was rendered through an ASCII filter. This feature was removed on April 2, 2010.
Animal Translator BETA[edit]
Google placed a link on the main page, advertising a new Google Animal Translator service to add to their Language Translator service. Clicking the link would take the user to a page advertising an app for Android phones for the translator, with the tagline being 'Bridging the gap between animals and humans'.
- Google Translate for Animals[81]
Once the app is installed on an Android phone, it provides some amusing translations depending on the animal selected.
Standard Voicemail Mode for Google voice[edit]
Google placed a New! Standard Voicemail Mode[82] link in the Google Voice main page.
Evil Bit[edit]
Google added an 'evil bit' to their AJAX APIs, to aid in generating an appropriate response to nefarious deeds. If an evildoer is 'detected', the code returns with, among other things, 'For Great Justice', a quotation from the video game Zero Wing.[83]Conversely, setting the evil bit to 'false' will return the Google Search results for 'April Fools' encoded in JSON.[84]
Wave Wave Notifications[edit]
Google Wave can be set to have a human being waved at by the user[85] to notify the user of a change to a Google Wave. The user can also select the volume of the human notifier from a list of silent, medium, loud and vibrate. They can also select which human notifier they want, including Ashton Kutcher, Dr. Wave, Grandma, Werner Heisenberg, and Puppy. Clicking on any of the links on the new notifications page redirected the user to a Google help page, alerting them that it was an April Fools' joke, but also that email notifications are possible.
Google Annotations Gallery[edit]
The Google Annotations Gallery ('GAG') is an exciting new Java open source library that provides a rich set of annotations for developers to express themselves.[86]
Disemvoweling on Gmail[edit]
The English-language home page of Gmail, including its logo, was disemvowelled. A post on the Gmail blog was created to address the issue, claiming that they had encountered a server error which firstly made the data centers fail to render the vowel 'a' before failing to render the vowels, and were working on the problem. They also claimed to be investigating whether the letter 'y' was impacted.[87]
Chrome Sounds (Google Chrome Extension)[edit]
Google created a new extension, Chrome Sounds,[88] after 'months deep in psychoacoustic models, the Whittaker-Nyquist-Kotelnikov-Shannon sampling theorem, Franssen effects, Shepard-Risset Tones, and 11.1 surround sound research'.[89] The extension provides audio for actions performed within the Google Chrome web browser. For a few interesting sounds, try going to different countries' localized Google pages. The full list of sounds that this extension makes can be found by going to the Chrome Tools menu, choosing Extensions, turning on developer mode, and viewing the source of the extension.
Google Analytics Goes Back to Hits[edit]
Google decided that hits really is the only metric for tracking web site usage.[90]
Life sized Picasa[edit]
Google offered an option which allows the user to print life-size cardboard cutouts of all of their photos.[91]
ReaderAdvantage Program[edit]
Google announced[92] a reward program for Google Reader, known as ReaderAdvantage, in which they would assign points to users depending on the number of items read on Google Reader. The rewards were different badges.
Wingdings in AdSense[edit]
Wingdings was announced as a new font option for AdSense users.[93]
2011[edit]
YouTube[edit]
A button was added to the video player which, when clicked, would apply a video filter to the video and replace the audio with a recording of Rhapsody Rag, a piece typically played as background music to silent movies in 1911. If subtitles are enabled when watching the video, intertitles will be displayed containing the dialogue. The upload page also featured an option to 'send a horse-drawn carriage to me to pick [the video] up'.[94] In addition, a few videos were made parodying several viral videos, such as the 'Flugelhorn Feline'.
Gmail Motion[edit]
A body gesture oriented way to send and view mail through Gmail. In the 'How it Works' Section it reads 'Gmail Motion uses your computer's built-in webcam and Google's patented spatial tracking technology to detect your movements and translate them into meaningful characters and commands. Movements are designed to be simple and intuitive for people of all skill levels.' An overview video presented by Gmail product manager Paul McDonald explains Gmail Motion's 'language of movements that replaces type entirely' while a mime artist performs the full-body Gmail actions.[95][96]
Upon clicking the 'Try Gmail Motion' button, it explains to the user about the prank, and says 'Gmail Motion doesn't actually exist. At least not yet..'The page also offers a preview of the features of Google Docs Motion.
- Gmail Motion[97]
- Google Docs Motion[98]
Google Docs Motion[edit]
Using Gmail Motion's technology, Google has promoted the BETA version of Google Docs Motion which 'will introduce a new way to collaborate – using your body' in their Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Drawings, and Document List tools.[99]
Autocompleter Job[edit]
A YouTube video[100] was posted by Google showing a 'Google Autocompleter' employee explaining the job. Also, a job opening was featured for an 'Autocompleter.'[101] Clicking on the 'Add to job cart' or 'View cart' links to a Google search for 'google April Fools' Day pranks'.[102]
- Autocompleter Job[103]
Chromercise[edit]
Google Chrome launched a new website called 'Chromercise', which aims to increase people's hands' strength and dexterity while browsing the web faster, and also allowing their hands to fit 'into sleeker, sexier gloves'. On the website, they also gave away free Google Chrome finger sweatbands for a limited time.[104]
Japan[edit]
Due to the large-scale devastation from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, in lieu of a traditional April Fools hoax, Google Japan featured many never-before featured drawings from its 2009 Google Doodle competition, themed 'What I Love About Japan' drawn by Japanese schoolchildren, saying 'We promised that only the top prize winners would be featured on Google, but as this is the only day where lies are forgiven, we have obtained the other children's understanding.' As a small concession to the usual festivities, the Google Blog mentioned, 'This year's April Fools joke has been postponed until next year. Next year's April Fool's joke has been postponed until the year following that.'[105]
Google 穿越搜索[edit]
Google teleport 穿越搜索[106] is a service that allows user to time travel. The site is written in Simplified Chinese. It claims that it can take the user on a journey through time and space in first-person.[107]
Search[edit]
Searching for 'helvetica',[108] 'comic sans',[109] or 'comic sans ms'[110] temporarily changed the entire webpage's font to Comic Sans.[111]
Comic Sans for Everyone[edit]
Announcement that Comic Sans will become the default font for all Google products. Google also created a Google Chrome extension which changes the font to Comic Sans on all webpages.[112]
Google Cow[edit]
The Google Body homepage appeared as Google Cow,[113] where a cow's body can be examined in 3D. There was a toggle button that switched to human models.
Google Maps[edit]
Google Maps used to display a dragon in Germany's biggest forest, the 'Pfälzer Wald'.[114][115] Also a shark in the Netherlands' lake called IJsselmeer, East of Amsterdam[116] was featured. When viewed in Earth Mode or Google Earth, these can be rendered in 3D. There is also a narwhal[117] in the Thames in London, outside Millbank Tower. The Loch Ness monster also makes an appearance in 'Loch Ness'.[118] A giant red lobster sits atop the Zakim Bridge[119] in Boston, as well as a pink elephant at 'Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA'.
Google Translate for Animals[edit]
Google UK purportedly offered a version of Google Translate which could be used to talk with animals.[120]
Adwords[edit]
AdWords announced a new format, Google Blimp Ads, that would be flying over major cities starting in May.[121]
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Google I/O[edit]
The announced sessions for the Google I/O conference for software developers were changed to include talks featuring technologies from the late 1990s.[122]
Contoso has gone Google[edit]
On the Google Enterprise Blog, Google announced that Contoso (a fictional company used by Microsoft in Microsoft's product documentation materials) has switched from Microsoft Office and Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. The post included references to 2007's TiSP and 2011's Gmail Motion jokes.[123]
Meow Me Now Mobile[edit]
On the Google Mobile Blog, Google announced a new mobile-based search option for Android and iOS devices which locates kittens near the user's current location.[124]
Blogger[edit]
The blogging service Blogger announced that it was being acquired by Google, even though it has been part of Google since 2003.[125]
2012[edit]
Google Maps 8-bit for NES[edit]
Google partnered with Square Enix and announced a 'NES version' of their Google Maps service, to be released 'as soon as possible'. The version would be released in NES and Famicom versions (the Famicom version would feature voice input by using the second controller's microphone). In the meantime, Google added a 'Quest'[126] layer to the Maps website, which features 8-bit tile-based graphics and sprites on landmarks, both made by Google and by Square Enix (using the Dragon Quest game series' graphics).[127]
Improved Japanese Input System[edit]
Google's proposed improved keyboard based on the experience with Japanese input system from 2010.[128]
The YouTube Collection[edit]
YouTube added a small disc on the right side of the YouTube logo, which when clicked leads to a page about a service called 'The YouTube Collection'. It claimed to be an at-home experience of YouTube and made everything from videos to comments physical, including a postal mail commenting service. At the bottom of the website, it had a fake shipping form which after filled said 'Your order has been placed. Due to heavy demand, your anticipated delivery date is: JUNE 16, 2045' and in small grey text at the bottom said 'Also, April Fools.'
Google Street Roo[edit]
Google announced they will deploy a 'roo force' of more than 1,000 big red kangaroos who will capture up to 98% of the Australian bush within the next three years.[129]
Underwater Image Search[edit]
An underwater image search experience developed by Google China.[130]
Google Weather Control[edit]
Google added weather control to its weather search.[131]
Chrome Multitask Mode[edit]
Chrome Multitask Mode makes it possible to browse the web with two or more mice at the same time. Clicking the 'Try Multitask Mode' button initially creates one fake mouse that moves around the screen, and over time adds several more and at one point a giant cursor even appears. Clicking the 'Exit Multitask Mode' button shows an April Fools message.[132]
Elegantizr[edit]
Google introduced the Elegantizr[133] framework. To use it, one just needs to insert the following line of HTML:
Upon insertion, every text begins with APRIL FOOL and an emoticon, before moving on to the regular text.
Piano & Guitar Analytics Playback[edit]
Google Analytics allows the user to playback their website statistics on piano and guitar.
Google Racing[edit]
Google announced a partnership with NASCAR to help create self-driving vehicles to compete in stock car racing.[134] The 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button on Google's site was also changed to 'I'm Steering Lucky.'[135]
Gmail Tap[edit]
Gmail Tap for Android and iOS doubles typing speed with a revolutionary new keyboard.[136] The system involves a keyboard with three keys: Morse code 'dash' and 'dot', and a spacebar (along with backspace). Shortly before midnight, on March 31, 2012 added Gmail Tap[137] – Android and iOS Application utilizing Morse Code instead of onscreen keyboard. Selecting Download App for Your Phone[138] produces the message: 'Oops! Gmail Tap is a bit too popular right now. We suggest you try downloading it again on April 2nd.' Clicking the Retry[139] button will produce 'It's still April 1st, 2012. You'll have to wait till April 2nd to download Gmail Tap.' After clicking the retry button the page will say 'Still trying to download Gmail Tap? Check back next April 1st to see if it is available..you never know.'.[140] On Gmail's Facebook page,[141] they also posted about a Morse keyboard.[142] Finally, at the Google I/O 2018, Google announced that they will be adding morse code input to its mobile keyboard. The company announced the new feature at Google I/O after showing a video of Tania Finlayson.
Really Advanced Search[edit]
A link on the bottom of search results pages titled Really Advanced Search[143] takes users to a search page where they can filter their search results by, among other things, subtext or innuendo, page font (Comic Sans or Wingdings), loanword origin, or future modification date. Clicking on the 'Advanced Search' button to actually run the search query redirects users to search results for 'April Fools'.[144]
Click-to-Teleport Extensions[edit]
Click-to-Teleport extensions[145] allow potential customers to instantly teleport to the business location directly from a search ad in a matter of seconds. This teleportation technology shortens the 'online-to-store' conversion funnel by providing searchers with an easy way to visit any business and convert. On average, advertisers using Click-to-Teleport extensions have seen their offline sales increase by 3600%.[146]
GoRo[edit]
Solving the increasingly frustrating problem of accessing mobile internet on rotary phones across the US, Google is announcing GoRo.[147] GoRo aims to fix the problem that 100% of people using rotary phones have trouble accessing a website
Jargon-Bot for Google Apps[edit]
Jargon-Bot[148] instantly recognizes business terms and provides real-time, in-product jargon translation into plain English.[149]
Google TV Click[edit]
Innovative remote control application for phone and tablet lets users interact with shows and movies as they are playing.[150]
Google Voice for Pets[edit]
Google introduced special Voice Communication Collars that fit around animal necks and use a series of sensors to record audio directly from animal vocal cords. Using a WiFi network, audio messages are uploaded to Google Voice within seconds. Alternately, a tiny micro-LED emitter built into the collar can project a keyboard onto the floor, so the animal pet can tap its front paws to send text messages. To understand animal language, Google took their voicemail transcription engine and combined it with millions of adorable pet videos from the Internet, training it to translate cat meows or dog growls into English.[151]
$1 Google Offer for Parking Karma[edit]
Google Offer for unlimited good parking karma[152] $1 takes the stress and guesswork out of finding a good spot by providing the following service:
- prime spots when you need them,
- repels parking tickets,
- includes 1 space buffer on each side,
- shopping cart protection plan,
- no parallel parking for first 6 months.
Canine Staffing Team[edit]
Google revealed that dogs at Google offices go through the same detailed recruitment and hiring process by Canine Staffing Team as human Googlers do before being welcomed to the Googleplex.[153]
Analytics Interplanetary Reports[edit]
While currently users can only get a partial picture of website visitor location, Google Analytics is expanding beyond Earth by announcing new Analytis Interplanetary Reports to help users understand visitor activities from neighboring stars and planets. Users will also be able to drill down on each planet to see greater detail, e.g. which colony or outpost visitors came from, similar to the city drill down available for Earth today.[154]
'Did you mean: Beyonce' and Kanye West in the Play Music Store[edit]
Kanye West bugdroid appeared in the Play Music Store. While searching anything, 'Did you mean: Beyonce' came up every time.
Google Edible fiber[edit]
Google released a video[155] on YouTube claiming it invented an edible fiber which could 'take feedback from the body, determine which nutrients are needed and target delivery to the specific organs that need those nutrients.The video actually links to Google Fiber, a broadband internet service by Google.
2013[edit]
YouTube contest for the best video[edit]
In YouTube's sixth April Fools' prank, YouTube joined forces with The Onion, a newspaper satire company, by claiming that it will 'no longer accept new entries'. YouTube began the process of selecting a winner on April 1, 2013 and would delete everything else. YouTube would go back online in 2023 to post the winning video and nothing else.[156] After that, on April 1, 2013, YouTube briefly repeated the 'YouTube Collection' joke from April 1, 2012. They also broadcast a live ceremony in which two 'submission coordinators' continuously read off the titles and descriptions of random videos (the 'nominees') for twelve straight hours, claiming they would do hold the same ceremony every day for the next two years.[157]
Treasure Hunt on Google Maps[edit]
Google Maps allows the user to start a treasure hunt by selecting the 'Treasure' view from the top right. Google Maps notes that the 'system may not be able to display at higher resolutions than paper print' and that the user should 'take care when unfolding the map to avoid ripping it.' Also, the user is warned to 'beaware [sic] of pirates'. In reference to the TV show Portlandia, an image of a bird was placed on Portland, Oregon. While in this mode, Pegman is replaced with a telescope, thus giving the effect of looking through an old telescope when using Street View.
- Explore Treasure Mode with Google Maps[158]
Improved Google Play Developer Console[edit]
The addition of an 'Add new awesome application' button.[159]
Google Japanese Input Patapata Version[edit]
Google introduces a new Japanese input system.[160] Users repeatedly tap a single button to cycle through different letters. A brief pause confirms the current letter and advances the cursor to begin entering the next one.
The name 'Patapata' likely references a Japanese word for Split-flap display, onomatopoeically dubbed 'Patapata-shiki' for its distinctive fluttering sound when updating. There also exists Patapon, where 'Pata' is one of the sounds made with a drum; 'pata-pata-pata-pon' happens to be one of the first rhythms the game teaches the user.
Gmail Blue[edit]
Gmail is now the color blue.[161] Coincidently, Google would eventually go on to release Inbox by Gmail which features a similar interface to Gmail, only blue.
Google SCHMICK (Simple Complete House Makeover Internet Conversion Kit)[edit]
Google SCHMICK allows the user to redesign his or her street viewed house so that the user can 'fly the Australian flag' outside the user's house [162]
Google Fiber Poles[edit]
Google Fiber to the Pole provides ubiquitous gigabit connectivity to fiberhoods across Kansas City. This latest innovation in Google Fiber technology enables users to access Google Fiber's ultra fast gigabit speeds even when they are out and about.[163]
Google Wallet Mobile ATM[edit]
Google announced the release of the Google Wallet Mobile ATM. The mobile ATM device easily attaches to most smartphones and dispenses money instantly and effortlessly – forever ending the user's search for the nearest bank or ATM. The Google Wallet Mobile ATM technology allows the user to enter the amount of money he or she want to withdraw directly to a phone or use voice-activated dispenser. Unlike traditional ATM's, the Google Wallet Mobile ATM even dispenses rare two and fifty dollar bills, as well as more practical one dollar bills.[164]
Levity Algorithm in Google Apps[edit]
Google introduces the Levity Algorithm in Google Apps to help users spice up even the most boring of work days.[165]
Updated Export and Send-To features on Google Analytics[edit]
Prank Programs Blogspot Comics Download
Google updated the Export and Send-To features for Google Analytics to give users even more options and support some of our favorite legacy technology: 3.5' floppy, CD-ROM, papyrus, sticky note, carrier pigeon, fax, telegram, telegraph.[166]
Self-Writing Code Program[edit]
Google developed self-writing code program. Now that Google engineers are not spending their time at the desk programming, they have plenty of time to collaborate with teammates, attend talks and events on campus, go for a workout at the gym or try out a new cafe. Google always encourages employees to have a full life outside of the office and now Google employees have tremendous work-life balance.[167]
Google Search Cold Trends[edit]
The least searched topics on Google, 'Cold searches' is the way to discover new unique things that nobody else is into.[168]
Google Nose[edit]
On 31st March, 2013, Google uploaded a Youtube video on its new project called as Google Nose. Basically Google fooled everyone by saying that they can now smell what people are searching, eg. smell of a wet dog, etc.
2014[edit]
Software Dogengineer[edit]
Google created an entry in their careers page looking for a dogengineer.
Google Maps Pokémon Challenge[edit]
Google joined forces with The Pokémon Company, Game Freak, and Nintendo to develop a new Google Maps app for the iOS and Android, which allowed users to capture Pokémon while exploring the real world using Google Maps.[169] The concept of the app would later be refined and released as Pokémon Go in 2016.
Gmail Selfie[edit]
Based on the popularity of adding pictures of oneself as a Gmail custom theme, Google launches a feature to share that custom theme (of one's self) with their friends.[170]
Nest + Virgin[edit]
After acquiring Nest Labs in early 2014, Google teamed up with Virgin Airlines about the latest in-flight feature. Passengers on the Virgin Airlines aircraft have the ability to change their personal temperature on the plane using their latest Total Temperature Control.[171]
Google Japanese Input: Magic Hand Version[edit]
There are many problems with inputting Japanese on a mobile device using one's finger – so Google has introduced the *Magic Hand* to solve them.[172]
Emojify the Web[edit]
Google Translate support for Emoji is built directly into Chrome for Android and iOS. One can now read all their favorite Web content 'using efficient and emotive illustrations, instead of cumbersome text.' Google's translation algorithm interprets not just the definition of the words on a webpage, but also their context, tone, and sometimes even facial expression in order to convert them into symbols. 'Not only does this pictorial and theatrical language allow us to communicate complex emotions, it's also far more compact. One Emoji symbol can easily replace dozens of characters, improving efficiency and comprehension on the go. It turns out the best way to communicate in the future is to look to the past: the ancient Egyptians were really onto something with their hieroglyphs.'[173]
Auto-Awesome Photobombs with David Hasselhoff[edit]
Google announced on the Official Google Blog that they would randomly insert David Hasselhoff into Google+ photos via the Auto-Awesome feature.[174]
WazeDates[edit]
'WazeDates' uses the same crowdsourcing technology designed to help drivers around the world outsmart traffic, while creating a new space for people to meet and fall in love.[175]
Upcoming Viral Video Trends[edit]
YouTube announced that they write, shoot, and upload all of the world's most popular viral videos, and that this year they're accepting viral video ideas from YouTube users.[176]
AutoAwesome for Resumes[edit]
Google announced that it's rolling out special effects for Resumes on Google Drive.[177]
Qwerty Cats Chrome Extension[edit]
The Chromium team releases a QWERTY virtual keyboard for cats on the Chrome Web Store.[178]
Coffee to the Home[edit]
Google Fiber launches Coffee to the Home (CTTH) program for Kansas City residents; delivering made-to-order coffee drinks straight to users at fiber speeds—through the same fiber jack that delivers 100 times faster Internet.[179]
AdBirds[edit]
Google AdWords team now released AdBirds, a new way to show ads. The user has six birds (Sparrow, Duck, Owl, Pigeon, Eagle and Penguin) to choose from, and he/she adds in a little bit of text before setting the bird free into the world, for everyone to see their ad.[180]
Google Apps for Business Dogs[edit]
Google announced that they're launching a suite of features to make Google Apps more useful for Dogs in the workplace. Features include Dmail with translation, Hangouts with Bark Enhancement, and paw recognition technology.[181]
Google Analytics Academy: [182]Helpouts by Google: Helpouts from a Pirate[edit]
Scowlin' Guideon Scabb the Beardless helps one hone their pirate vocabulary 1 on 1 over live video.[183]
Adsenses on planets and moon[edit]
Now interplanetary IP addresses are interpreted. 'With our recent discovery of the interplanetary IP address repository, you'll have access to even more reports that can help you improve user engagement on your site. For example, if you notice a lot of traffic coming from Mars, try adding more pages in Martian to engage with those audiences.'[184][185]
Google Play Signature Edition[edit]
Signature Apps lets developers ship their work directly to customers on a thumbdrive inside a special package ready for unboxing, preferably 'using natural sources of locomotion such as biking and walking' to reduce the environmental impact. The dev console includes settings for shipping apps, an explanation of the value add, and a reminder to sign apps on a piece of paper or electronically to give them more authenticity. Unfortunately, hitting the Save button doesn't work.[186]
Chromecast for squirrels[edit]
Google says it is working with 'developers of 'paw-friendly' apps to build Chromecast support into more of the apps and websites both humans and squirrels love.'[187][188]
Spreadsheets Pride[edit]
Typing in p-r-i-d-e (one letter per cell) in the first row of a Google Spreadsheet turns the entire table rainbow.[189]
2015[edit]
Pac-Maps[edit]
Google added a 'Pac-Man View' to Google Maps, allowing users to play Pac-Man along real world streets. The bell and key were replaced by the map marker and the Street View 'pegman' respectively. Created by John Tantalo, a software engineer at Google, and his wife Mary Radcliffe, an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Washington, Pac-Maps remained available for about ten days.[190]
Ingress Pacman[edit]
Niantic Labs, a startup internal to Google, added Pacman to the Ingress scanner.[191]
#ChromeSelfie[edit]
Google added a 'Share a reaction' button to the Chrome mobile app menu, which lets you to take a half-selfie, half-screenshot picture of the current-viewing site and then share it, offering to use the Hashtag #ChromeSelfie.[192]
Smartbox by Inbox by Gmail by Google[edit]
Google announced a Smart Mailbox for your physical mail, with auto-sorting folders, push notifications, temperature control, spam protection and more.[193]
elgooG[edit]
Google launched com.google, a version of Google Search in which the site is reflected horizontally.[194] The site was removed the day after and now redirects to the main site.
Google Fiber Dial Up Mode[edit]
Google Fiber launched dial up mode which slows your life down, 'to pause and take care of the little things'.[195]
Darude – Sandstorm[edit]
On many song-related searches on YouTube, it suggests Sandstorm by Darude. It also adds its button to any video that plays its sequence.[196]
Google Panda[edit]
Product manager for Google Search launched Google Panda, a panda plush toy aimed to 'change the face' of Google Search. State of the art emotional and conversational intelligence allows the panda to respond to their human and answer any question just as you would on Google Search or Google Now using the voice search feature.[197]
Equator Slipping: Australia to become Northern Hemisphere[edit]
Google Maps engineers from the Google Sydney office 'discovered' that the Earth's equator was slipping south at a rate of 25 km per year. This was backed by evidence from Veritasium's Derek Muller, measuring the movements of the Milankovitch cycles, which predicted 'the northern-most point of Australia, Cape York could enter the Northern Hemisphere as soon as 2055.'[198]
Google Actual Cloud Platform[edit]
The Google Actual Cloud Platform is the world's first public cloud running on servers in the troposphere.[199]
Google Keyboardless Keyboard[edit]
Google Japan announced a keyboard shaped like a party horn that you blow in order to type.[200]
Quantum Code Testing[edit]
The Google testing blog announced that it has radically simplified software testing by being able to model every possible state of a software application by employing quantum superposition techniques.[201]
2016[edit]
Gmail Mic Drop[edit]
A new feature was added to Gmail called 'Mic Drop', which archived the email message as soon as it was sent and inserted a GIF of Bob the Minion, a character from the Despicable Me film series.[202] However, the feature immediately caused backlash. Many people complained about accidentally sending the GIF to people at businesses, which resulted in some people being dropped from job consideration or even being fired. Google removed the feature not long after, citing those reasons and a bug that caused the GIF to be sent after hitting the regular send button.[203][204]
Searchable Socks[edit]
Google Australia announced a new product called Searchable Socks, a pair of socks which if lost could be found using the Google app. When you tap the beacon on your Google app, the sock would then play the Trololo song.[205]
Google Maps Disco[edit]
Google Maps features a video with the Pegman from Street View disco dancing.[206]
Parachutes by Google Express[edit]
Google Express offers fast delivery of things you need from stores you love. With our new delivery technology, packages will arrive even faster and land anywhere you want them – whether you're at the beach, in the woods, or even on a run.[207]
Google Cardboard Plastic[edit]
A transparent plastic Cardboard.[208]
YouTube SnoopaVision[edit]
YouTube launched the SnoopaVision feature, which allows users to watch videos in 360 degrees. The feature gets its name from Snoop Dogg, who was hired by Google to sponsor the project by appearing on announcements, but ended up being a 'true leader' of it.[209]
Google Self-Driving Bike[edit]
Google Netherlands announced Google Self-Driving bike inspired by their self-driving cars. Deputy major Kajsa Ollongren of Amsterdam also made an appearance in the video.[210]
Physical Flick Japanese Input[edit]
Google Japan announced that it had been working hard to bring the flick actions of its virtual Japanese input to the real world.[211]
Inbox by Gmail Emoji Smart Reply[edit]
The Gmail team announced it had added 'sass' to Inbox by Gmail's smart reply feature, now including emoji in its one-click responses.[212]
Interplanetary app publishing[edit]
In the app publishing process the 'Pricing & Distribution' section contained a blue box entitled 'DISTRIBUTE TO THESE PLANETS' containing a list of planets from Mercury through to Pluto. Pluto had been crossed out and a note appended which read 'No longer supported.' A 'Learn more' caption was provided which linked to a blog post by Lily Sheringham.[213]
Google X New Chief Compression Officer[edit]
Google X announced that they hired Richard Hendricks (from HBO's TV show, Silicon Valley) as their Chief Compression Officer, in order to solve compression challenges they were facing.[214]
Google Play RealBooks[edit]
Google announced RealBooks, a new form of ebook for those who miss having physical copies of books. These books were essentially a smartphone with every feature removed except the ability to read a single ebook. The video was removed at a later date for unknown reasons.
2017[edit]
Ms. Pac-Maps[edit]
Google has partly revived new Pac-Maps to allow users to play the popular video game Ms. Pac-Man along the streets of the world. Although, this time, instead of turning the player's current location into the game level, the player is taken to a random spot in the world. The mobile app for Maps also displays a button to play Ms. Pac-Maps.[215]
Google Wind[edit]
Google Nederland says that 'Holland is one of the greatest countries to live in, but the biggest downside is that it rains 145 days a year'. They also stated that 'it uses Machine Learning to recognize cloud patterns and orchestrate the network of windmills when rain is approaching. Test results look very promising.' On April 1, they would be able to ensure clear skies for everyone in Holland. This is an example of an attempt to control the weather locally.[216]
Google Japanese Input Puchi Puchi Version[edit]
A version of Google Japanese Input using bubble wrap.[217] Also, on the website they gave at the end of the video, there was a bubble wrap at the end of the page.[218]
Haptic Helpers[edit]
Google claims that 'it takes the world of virtual reality to the next level' by implementing the missing three senses of older VR technology: taste, touch, and smell. If you were to sign up however, the sign-up button became the words,'APRIL FOOLS!'[219]
Google Cloud Platform Expands to Mars[edit]
Google announced the creation of a datacenter on Mars, nicknamed 'Ziggy Stardust,' which would open in 2018 starting with a new Mars location in Google Cloud Storage. Part of Google's announcement included the ability to walk-through their new datacenter in Google Street View.[220]
Mobile Accessories for Chromebook[edit]
Google announced a wide range of accessories for the Chromebook that are only available for mobile phones, such as the 'Chromebook Groupie Stick,' 'Chromebook Cardboard,' and 'Chromebook Workout Armband.'[221]
Google Translate for Heptapod B[edit]
Google announced Heptapod B (the fictional language of 'Story of Your Life' and the motion picture based on it) as the 32nd language to be supported in Word Lens.[222]
Google Gnome[edit]
Google announced a new Google Assistant product specifically designed for the yard called 'Google Gnome'.[223] It has some of the features of Google Home,[224] except that it is supposed to be used outdoors.[225] According to Google, it can tell you about the environment and the outdoors. It only responds to voice[226] and is hand-free. It can also mow the lawn, acting as a lawnmower.[227]
Google Now for Dogs & Cats[edit]
Google announced a new force 3D touch action on the Google app for iOS that would open a special experience for cats or dogs.[228]
Google Play for Pets[edit]
Google announced a new Google Play category for Pets with games, apps and training tools to keep your pet stimulated.[229]
2018[edit]
Google Cloud Hummus API[edit]
Google Israel launched a 'hummus API' to organize information, even hummus. It attempts to store their favorite type of hummus as information.[230][231]
Gboard Physical Handwriting Board[edit]
Google Japan, from the Google Japanese Input team, proposed a physical handwritten version of Gboard. The device was developed 'to realize intuitive character input'. It was also said in the video to stretch the feature to beyond keyboards, such as an abacus and even corn.[232][233]
'Where's Waldo' on Google Maps[edit]
Five classic Where's Waldo scenes were hidden over Google Maps. Finding Waldo in each scene rewarded the player with a hint as to finding the next one. Completing all the levels unlocked a secret sixth scene on the Moon, which could be accessed by zooming out in Satellite view.[234]
Bad Joke Detector[edit]
Google is doing more than to delete unnecessary files to free up storage by deleting bad jokes from the user's device.[235]
Googz[edit]
Google Australia made a redesign of Google for Australian citizens called 'Googz'.[236] Google asked Aussie designer Jazza to make a convincing video about the new adaption of the word Googz. They conducted 'surveys' which showed some false results on how '80%' of Australians commonly refer to Google as Googz.[237]
Recrawl Now[edit]
Google Search Console made a site recrawl feature that instead rickrolls the user.[238]
2019[edit]
Sssnakes on a map[edit]
Google Maps will have a feature to play Snake in several cities. During the week of April Fool's Day, this is accessible in the app. Many cities are available, such as Cairo, London, San Francisco, São Paulo, Sydney, and Tokyo, and even the world. There is also a standalone site at https://snake.googlemaps.com.[239]
Screen Cleaner[edit]
The Files app will have a new Screen Cleaner tool that allows the user to wash away smudges on their mobile phone screen. The feature uses a Smudge Detector API, which uses 'geometric dirt models'.
Google Tulip[edit]
Google Nederland released a video on YouTube about a new app allowing you to communicate with a tulip.
Google Calendar[edit]
Google Calendar invites you to clear your schedule, one meeting at a time, with laser sharp precision. Click the Gear icon, then select Play a game (alternatively, deep link is: https://calendar.google.com/?playagame)
Gboard Spoon Bending[edit]
Google Japan followed up 2018's physical handwriting board with 2019's Spoon Bending version, a special, smart spoon that allows users to type Japanese characters in Gboard by bending it. This invention allows the user to type almost effortlessly anytime, anywhere, allowing the user greater flexibility in their writing. Allegedly they are also developing other bending technologies, such as an 'outdoor version' consisting of a fishing rod and a 'hands off' version where the spoon will be bent telepathically.[240]
Google Assistant[edit]
If the user writes 'April Fools' to Google assistant it will now tell you about a random historic April Fools prank.
Google Colab[edit]
'Power Mode - rack up combos and see sparks fly'. It introduced a new mode that, when activated, causes sparks to fly out from the cursor when typing, and shows an animated 'combo counter'.[241]
Gmail[edit]
To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the email client’s release, the Gmail logo featured balloons and a party hat on April 1st.
YouTube[edit]
After a two year drought YouTube returned to making April Fools pranks. This year they had an ad on the top of the home page for an Aquaman 2 movie, but instead of the playable video being a trailer for it the video was for Shazam! instead.
Real April Fools' Day product launches[edit]
Google has chosen April Fools' Day and the day before it to announce some of their actual products, as a form of viral marketing.
- Shortly before midnight on March 31, 2004, Google announced[242] the launch of Gmail. However, it was widely believed to be a hoax, since free web-based e-mail with one gigabyte of storage was unheard of at the time.[243]
- In 2005, Google increased Gmail storage to two gigabytes and released Google Ride Finder.[244]
- On March 31, 2010, YouTube implemented its new video page design, which had been revealed two months earlier.[245][246]
- On April 1, 2010, Google Street View received a new feature to toggle anaglyph 3D images. It was available by clicking on the icon depicting 'pegman' wearing a pair of red/cyan glasses. The icon was present until April 8, when it was removed. The 3D view is now available by right-clicking on the image and selecting the 3D mode option or by pressing 'T' or '3' on the keyboard. The images are genuine anaglyph images, with the red/cyan offset being greater for closer objects.
- On April 1, 2013, Google announced Google+ Emotion. Google+ can now 'plumb the emotional depths of everyone in the photo, then summarize their feelings with a beautifully crafted, emotion icon'[247]
- On April 1, 2014, Google announced Shelfies (Shareable Selfies), which allows one to add pictures of oneself as a Gmail custom theme and share that custom theme (of one's self) with their friends. The first version of Brotli compression format specification was published.[248]
- On April 1, 2016, Google introduced a new feature for Google Photos, allowing users to search their photos using emojis.
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This is a list of fictional characters from DC Comics who are or have been enemies of the Flash.
Golden Age Flash enemies[edit]
The Golden Age Flash enemies were all villains of the first Flash, Jay Garrick, later portrayed as living on Earth-Two after the introduction of the Silver Age Flash.
In chronological order (with issue and date of first appearance):
Villain | First appearance | Description |
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The Shade | Flash Comics #33 (September 1942) | A villain who makes use of a special cane that enables him to cast complete darkness at will. Reformed in the 1990s Starman series. |
Dmane | A criminal from the 70th century who is accidentally sent to 1946 by a time travel experiment. The Flash is finally able to send him back just before his execution. | |
The Rag Doll | Flash Comics #36 (December 1942) | Peter Merkel was born 'triple-jointed' which enabled him to flex farther than any other human being. He hid in a rag doll costume and robbed stores. Has recently died, but has had several children, a few of whom are also Ragdolls, including a daughter who is also a villain, a son that is a member of the Secret Six, and another yet revealed son mentioned by his brother. Dies in JSA Classified #7. |
The Eel | Comic Cavalcade #3 (Summer 1943) | “Eel” Madden was a criminal who had a greasegun which made it almost impossible for anyone to catch him. |
The Thinker | All-Flash #12 (Fall 1943) | Clifford Devoe, a former DA, was a villain who used a specially designed 'thinking cap' as an aid in conjuring up and performing various crimes, and a founding member of the Injustice Society of the World, in which position he captured the Flash. He later became friends with the Flash before dying from cancer; however, his Thinking Cap technology has become a computer program that made itself into a villain that battled Wally West and the rest of the JSA. Dies in Flash Vol. 2 #134. |
The Turtle | All-Flash #21 (January/February 1946) | A villain who used slowness-related weapons against the Flash, was inactive for a long time, then reappeared and now has the power to take away speed from people. Dies in Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #214. |
The Changeling | Flash Comics #84 | Nothing is known of the life of Erik Razar before he became a small-time gangster in Keystone City. In the early 1940s, Razar ran a small mob that was taken over by gangster Topper Hull. Hull framed Razar and had sent him to prison. In the summer of 1947, Razar hatched a plan to escape by sabotaging the prison power generator. His plan had an unforeseen side-effect, charging Razar with enormous amounts of electricity and giving him the ability to change into different animals. Razar used his new powers to escape and set out in pursuit of Hull. Disguised as a bird, Razar learns that Hull has planned a bank job by intercepting an armored car delivery. Razar decided to torture Hull by thwarting his crimes and intercepted the car first. By this point, the police had consulted with scientist Jay Garrick who was among those who witnessed Razar, as a large bull elephant, intercept and dismantle the armor car. Quickly changing to the Flash, Garrick engaged the shape-shifting criminal, but was quickly dispatched into a large water reservoir. Razar, now named the Changeling by the local papers, decided to foil Hull's hijack of a sunken ship recovery operation and then kill him. The Flash also became aware of Hull's plans by eavesdropping in his invisible super-speeding form and determined to intercept them both. Razar dove into the water as Hull's boat left the pier and transformed himself into a large shark. The Flash dived in behind the Changeling, but the criminal irritated a large clam which seized the Flash's leg and threatened to drown him. After extricating himself, he came upon the Changeling-shark threatening the divers in the recovery operation and assaulted him. Deciding that he would need to kill the villain to stop him, the Flash battered the shark's gills until it could not breath and then knocked it unconscious as the Changeling tried to change forms. As the unconscious and unmoving shark drifted to the bottom, the Flash left to capture Hull. (Flash Comics #84) Whether or not the Changeling survived has never been determined. |
Rose and the Thorn | Flash Comics #89 (November 1947) | Rose Canton had a multiple personality disorder, the Thorn, who was a villain, and who used thorn-themed weapons. She married Alan Scott, the first Green Lantern, and later committed suicide. Dies in Infinity Inc. Annual #1. |
The Fiddler | All Flash Comics #32 (January 1948) | Isaac Bowin was a villain who used a violin to perform crimes, usually by using the violin to hypnotize people or cause vibrations which could shatter objects after learning skills from a fakir he was in prison with, before murdering him. He first tried to frame his brother, but was defeated and pretened to commit suicide. Later he resurfaced. Recently, he joined the Secret Six, but when he failed a mission, he was killed by Deadshot on the orders of their leader, Mockingbird. After his death, a woman found his violin and is now using it, calling herself Virtuoso. Dies in Villains United #1. |
Star Sapphire | All-Flash #32 (January 1948) | A queen of the Seventh Dimension, she tried to take over the Earth twice but failed. She is now trapped in the Gem. |
The Rival | Flash Comics #104 (February 1949) | Dr. Edward Clariss, a professor at the university attended by the Golden Age Flash, Jay Garrick, believed he had recreated the formula that gave Garrick his speed, which he called 'Velocity 9'. However, this formula was only temporary, and he was defeated despite trying to use different fumes to take away the Flash's speed. Later he escaped from jail, but went into the Speed Force itself. He is now pure energy from the Speed Force. He joined Johnny Sorrow's Injustice Society and committed numerous murders which spelt out his name, but he was defeated by the Flash before he could murder Joan. Last appeared in Impulse #88. |
Silver Age Flash enemies[edit]
The Silver Age Flash enemies all lived on Earth-One and started out as enemies of the second Flash, Barry Allen, as well as the third Flash, Wally West, and the fourth, Bart Allen, after the death of Barry Allen. The Silver Age is when some enemies started to use the name 'Rogues'. Originally, the Rogues were just a few of the Flash's enemies teaming together, but since then they have formed a lasting team, and usually a Rogue will not commit a crime by himself. The original eight Rogues were Captain Cold, the Mirror Master, Heat Wave, the Weather Wizard, the Trickster, the Pied Piper, the Top, and Captain Boomerang. The current incarnation of the Rogues includes Captain Cold, Weather Wizard, Heat Wave, the second Mirror Master, and the second Trickster.
In chronological order (with issue and date of first appearance):
Villain | First appearance | Description |
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Mazdan | Showcase #4 (October 1956) | A criminal from the 38th century, who the authorities decide to exile to the 50th century when Earth is desolate. He is accidentally sent to the 20th century and tries to steal equipment needed to repair his Time Capsule, such as gold to coat it, and get back to the future to exact revenge, using advanced heat-based weapons. The Flash discovers this and captures Mazdan, who escapes using a contact lens that fires lasers and a 'magnetic rod' that focuses heat; the Flash discovers that if Mazdan escapes using his Time Capsule, it will destroy everything within a radius of at least ten miles, killing thousands. He uses his superspeed to break through the time barrier with Mazdan, who, oddly enough, does not die from the friction and returns to the 38th century. The authorities say they will make sure next time the Time Capsule reaches the 50th century and the Flash returns to his own time. Mazdan later escapes to the 20th century and uses a mind-affecting hallucinatory weapon to cause trouble for the Flash, but is beaten again and returned to prison. |
The Brain | Showcase #8 | A trio of identical brothers who commit crimes while the city has been distracted by three giant boxes they have placed in each other after a fog has descended on the city, which the authorities try to open. Flash jails the first two as they attempt robberies with clever tricks, like a tightrope which the first one cuts and spring-heeled shoes, and jails the last one when he attempts a bank robbery by draining his live wire suit with which he intended to break his brothers out with silver. It is then revealed the last box led into the bank vault. |
The Bretans | The Flash #119 (March 1961) | A fish-like undersea race that kidnaps humans to work as slaves. After the Elongated Man disappears while skin-diving on his honeymoon, Flash is called by his wife, and reveals other skin-divers have disappeared around here, but he is knocked out with a blast and captured himself. He finds himself in a tank, where skin-divers are fished out and become the slave of the fisherman that captures them. The weakened Flash is captured while trying to get food and forced to work building a house in the city of Breta, and finds the blow that captured the Elongated Man has made him lose his memory. He restores it by making him use his power, and together they defeat the Bretans, who agree to never again kidnap humans and return them. |
Captain Cold | Showcase #8 (June 1957) | Len Snart was a criminal who wanted a chance to get rid of the Flash. Seeing an article about a weapon that might disrupt the Flash's Speed, Snart made a gun and exposed it to radiations. However due to the fact Snart was not experienced in the use of the device and activated it wrongly, instead of slowing the Flash down, the gun could freeze anything to absolute zero, which he discovered when he accidentally used it on a watchman. Calling himself Captain Cold, Snart started out on a criminal career. He is the leader of the Rogues. Known for being a sympathetic villain, Cold has a sense of honor. Cold has strict rules on how the Rogues should act, such as no drugs and to not kill unless they have to. He also has a sense of loyalty to his team and watches out for them. |
The Cloud Creatures | The Flash #111 | Sentient, cloud-like creatures which emerge from underground to take over the world and can project lightning. The Flash notices each has a dark spot on them, and realises striking it will destroy the cloud. He skims over normal clouds and is able to dissipate the invaders, turning them to rain. |
Doctor Alchemy | Showcase #14 (June 1958) | Albert Desmond suffered from a split personality, one a good person and the other evil. Originally calling himself Mr. Element and using element-themed devices before being captured by the Flash, he changed it to Dr. Alchemy when he found the Philosopher's Stone which could transmute elements after hearing of it from a cellmate, and was able to transmute elements, although the effects only lasted for about 20 minutes. Soon it was found out that there were two Desmonds, Albert, the good one and Alvin, the bad, and that they shared a mental link. Alvin was destroyed, but Albert became Dr. Alchemy again. |
The Dokris | The Flash vol. 1 #125 | The Dokris were a species of green-skinned aliens who briefly conquered Earth in the year 2287. Under the leadership of Mynher, they sent a hive to the distant past, 100,842,246 BC, which robbed Earth's minerals of all its radioactivity. This, in turn, caused the atomic weapons of humanity to deactivate. In the first use of the Cosmic Treadmill, Kid Flash went to the past to destroy the hive, and Flash to the future to battle the aliens so that they did not wipe out humanity. He is knocked out by a radiation gun and taken captive, and Kid Flash is stung by a giant insect in the past. Finally he is given an antidote by half-man, half-bird beings. He destroys the hive, causing the weapons of the future to work again, meaning the aliens are defeated. |
The Maugites | The Flash vol 1 #109 | Undersea superfast creatures that resemble black fish with limbs who attack another race, the Saremites. The Flash finds out about the Saremites from an astronaut who was saved when his capsule fell into the sea by the Muagites, and defeats a horde of them. By the end the Saremites are making weapons, having been shown the Maugites can be defeated. |
The Mirror Master | The Flash #105 (March 1959) | While working in a prison workshop, Sam Scudder accidentally stumbled upon a mirror that could project holograms. When he escaped, he made more mirror gadgets, and became the Mirror Master. He has created many different mirrors that can do various things like travel into other dimensions. He was killed during Crisis on Infinite Earths, however there have been others. |
Gorilla Grodd | The Flash #106 (May 1959) | Grodd was an inhabitant of Gorilla City, a peaceful society of super-intelligent gorillas of which Grodd was the only evil one. A mastermind in his early years with vast mental powers, he has become more savage and stronger recently, to the point where he wants to 'feast on the bones' of the Flash. |
The Pied Piper | The Flash #106 (May 1959) | Hartley Rathaway was born deaf, but was cured after his rich parents sought a way to make him hear. Once he could hear, he became obsessed with music and sound, and made many sound-based weapons. Originally a criminal, he reformed and came out as being gay the same time. He became a friend of Wally West, even when the Top revealed he had changed the personality of some of the Rogues (Pied Piper included) to make them reform; Pied Piper was able to fight off the Top and stay good. |
The Weather Wizard | The Flash #110 (December 1959/January 1960) | Mark Mardon escaped from prison to his brother's house. His brother had just made a wand that could control the weather. Mark wanted the weapon and he and his brother got into a fight, and his brother was killed (although Mardon said he was dead when he got there, he has told the truth to Captain Cold). He had an infant son who was adopted by Iris West, but was later killed by Inertia. |
The Trickster | The Flash #113 (June/July 1960) | James Jesse, a circus performer who came from a family of trapeze artists, invented shoes that used compressed air to 'walk' on air, originally using them for tightrope walking. Inspired by Jesse James, James made other weapons and became the Trickster, robbing planes until Flash tracked him down in the circus. He was captured, but became a member of the Rogues. Once reformed, but it was revealed that was because the Top made it so, and he returned to the Rogues, but contemplated whether to be a hero or a villain. He was killed in Countdown to Final Crisis. |
Captain Boomerang | The Flash #117 (December 1960) | Digger Harkness was a master of boomerangs which he learned how to use in the Outback. When a mascot was needed for a boomerang company, Harkness was hired, but used the costume and boomerangs to commit crimes and he had many trick boomerangs. Originally he pretended someone else was using his identity to trick Flash, but finally the deception was revealed. He once impersonated the Mirror Boomerang. Harkness was killed during Identity Crisis, but also killed Jack Drake before he died. Harkness has a son, Owen Mercer, who became a hero after a brief stint with the Rogues. |
The Top | The Flash #122 (August 1961) | Roscoe Dillon used many top-themed weapons to commit crimes, eventually learning how to spin himself at great speeds, increasing his intelligence and allowing him to deflect bullets. Although he died, Dillon's mind was so powerful that it took over the minds of many people to keep on living, including Henry Allen and a senator, whose body was reformed by Dillon to look like his original body. He was later killed again by Captain Cold when Dillon tried to take over the Rogues during the 'Rogue War'. During this time it was revealed that Dillon had made some of the Rogues reform, and during the war, he made them criminals again. He was also a victim of the JLA mindwipes; he was made a good person, but overpowered it and changed back. |
Abra Kadabra | The Flash #128 (May 1962) | A magician from the 64th century who was exiled from his time period for crimes and used his technology to pose as a magician. Originally separate from the Rogues, he recently began joining forces with them occasionally. |
Professor Zoom the Reverse-Flash | The Flash #139 (September 1963) | Eobard Thawne is a speedster from the 25th century, who occasionally used the alias Adrian Zoom. He was a fan of the Flash, and gained his powers, but went insane on discovering he would become a villain. Once just a simple villain, he became more known when he killed Barry Allen's wife Iris Allen (although her consciousness was transported to the 30th century at the last possible instant). This action made him Barry Allen's archnemesis. Later, when Barry was about to remarry, Zoom tried to kill his bride, but, in a fit of rage, Barry killed Zoom by breaking his neck, thus putting the Flash on trial for murder where he was found guilty. He was returned to life, and is the one behind Flashpoint. |
Heat Wave | The Flash #140 (November 1963) | Mick Rory is obsessed with heat, and at a young age, burned down his house, killing his family. He then made a heat gun and used fire to rob and kill. Rory was one of the Rogues the Top made reform, and when that was taken away, Rory became a Rogue again. Even during his redeemed life, his mind was already starting to turn to crime. |
The Golden Glider | The Flash #250 (June 1977) | Lisa Snart, the younger sister of Len Snart (Captain Cold), did not want to be a villain, but when her lover, the Top died, she swore revenge on the Flash. Using sharp ice skates which made ice, she battled the Flash, and got the approval of her brother. She was killed by Chillblaine, a villain whom she gave ice powers to. Captain Cold has since gotten revenge by killing Chillblaine. |
Clive Yorkin | The Flash #270 (February 1979) | Clive Yorkin, a criminal spending life in prison, agreed to take part in a prison experiment. The experiment went wrong, and it drove him mad and able to kill someone by touching them. It was thought he killed Iris West, but he was innocent, the real culprit being Professor Zoom the Reverse-Flash. |
Steve Palmer | The Flash #118 | An actor who has been hired to play the Flash, but plans to eliminate him and impersonate him, hiring out his image to companies. He causes dangerous events on set, causing the Flash to take his place to find out who is behind it. The Flash evades a mine cave-in, but is knocked out from behind by Palmer and tied up. Palmer reveals his plan, and his henchmen are about to shoot the Flash, when Iris West rings the doorbell on the trailer, giving the Flash enough time to vibrate free of his bonds and defeat the crooks. |
Katmos | The Flash #105 (March 1959) | Katmos is the sole survivor and former ruler of an iron-based race that ruled the Earth 8,000,000 years ago until nearly all of them were wiped out by a comet. When an archaeologist frees Katmos after he takes control of their mind, he uses his mind control gun on the archaeologist to further his power. Deciding to take over the world, Katmos begins stealing devices he needs in order to do so with his great strength, attracting the attention of the Flash. Finding Katmos when he is testing his device, the Fastest Man Alive battles the prehistoric humanoid, but is captured with the mind control gun and sealed in a tube that, once under the direct light of the sun, will make the Flash 1,000 times heavier than normal. Katmos, meanwhile, tells the Flash of his origins before leaving. The Flash manages to break out of the tube by bouncing out of the cavern into the sky and crashing onto the ground. The Flash then quickly knocks out Katmos and turns him over to the police. |
The Rainbow Raider | The Flash #286 (June 1980) | A colorblind painter, Roy G. Bivolo had true talent in composition and detail, but lack of ability to see color made his work unpopular. His father made a pair of goggles for him that could project colors on a person; each color represented a different mood. Roy became a criminal who stole paintings and joined the Rogues. He was later killed by Blacksmith. |
Modern Age Flash enemies[edit]
In addition to the Silver Age Rogues, there have been many other Flash villains created in the past few years. The special issue Flash: Iron Heights was the first appearance of many of them. Some of the 'new breed', as the old Rogues call them, made a team called the New Rogues, led by Blacksmith. They tried to take away the allies of the Flash so he would fight them alone, but the Flash beat them anyway. These villains are not part of the current Rogues, which are still the Silver Age villains. Also, new versions of Mirror Master, the Trickster, and Captain Boomerang were introduced and became part of the Rogues.
Villain | First appearance | Description |
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Colonel Computron | The Flash #304 (December 1981) | Colonel Computron was a toymaker named Basil Nurblin, a disgruntled employee of Wiggins Toy Corporation. After donning a suit of armor that resembled one of his toy creations, Basil set out to seek revenge against his employer Willard W. Wiggins (president of Wiggins Toy Corporation) in retribution for being cheated out of adequate compensation for his invention of the popular Captain Computron toy. |
Magenta | The New Teen Titans #17 (March 1982) | Frankie Kane was a one-time girlfriend of Wally West, who gained magnetic powers which killed her family. Not knowing her purpose in life, she became a villain and first joined the Cicada cult and the New Rogues before reforming. |
The Mirror Master | Animal Man #8 (February 1989) | Evan McCulloch grew up in an orphanage, and after killing a bully, he escaped and became a mercenary. On one hit, he unknowingly shot and killed his father, and later found out his mother died of grief. Then, he was hired by the government to be the new Mirror Master, and he got the original Mirror Master's equipment. Instead of working for the government, McCulloch became a member of the Rogues, taking the place of the old Mirror Master. He also has a drug problem, of which Captain Cold does not approve. |
Manfred Mota | Flash 50th Anniversary Special (1990) | Mota is a villain who has multiple versions of the Flash, each time in a different form. He is also the father of Valerie Perez, girlfriend of Bart Allen. |
Razer | Flash vol. 2 #84 (November 1993) | Razer is a villain who was a mercenary for hire who wears a suit coated completely with lubrilon, an experimental near-frictionless chemical polymer. He nearly destroyed a shopping mall, though the Flash got almost everyone out. Razer later escaped and began working for Data Highways, Inc. |
Inertia | Impulse #50 (July 1999) | Inertia was a clone of Bart Allen. He originally fought Allen when he was Impulse, and then when Bart aged five years after Infinite Crisis and became the Flash, Inertia fought him again. Inertia was responsible for the death of Allen, and when Wally West returned he took revenge by stripping Inertia of all movement and putting him in the Flash Museum. During Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge, he was used by Libra and Zoom to try to get the Rogues to join the new Secret Society. He stole Zoom's powers, called himself Kid Zoom, and was killed by the Rogues, who blamed him for making them kill Bart Allen. |
The Folded Man | Flash vol. 2 #153 (October 1999) | Edwin Gauss is a criminal who uses a suit to shift from 3-D space to 2-D and 4-D space. He created Avernus, a graveyard in 4-D space for fallen Flash enemies. |
Plunder | Flash vol. 2 #165 (October 2000) | Plunder is an assassin from a mirror universe, a copy of a police officer in the comic's main timeline. |
Brother Grimm | Flash vol. 2 #166 (November 2000) | The ruler of another realm, Grimm blames Wally West for driving him to kill his brother and assume the throne. He possesses powerful magical abilities and is able to 'sense' the Speed Force, thus forcing Wally to limit himself to normal speed in any fight with Grimm. |
Cicada | Flash vol. 2 #171 (April 2001) | During a thunderstorm sometime in the early twentieth century, David Hersch murdered his wife. Regretting what he had done, he sought to end his own life, only to be struck by lightning. He had a vision that he had been chosen to live forever, and he would bring his wife back as well. Starting a cult, his followers killed people who had been saved by the Flash, and Cicada used the energy of these people to live forever. |
Tar Pit | Flash vol. 2 #174 (July 2001) | Joey Monteleone was the brother of a drug dealer, and while in prison discovered he could put his mind into inanimate objects. However, his mind got stuck inside tar, and now the tar has Monteleone's mind. |
Murmur | Flash: Iron Heights (2001) | A surgeon who went insane, Michael Amar now seeks sadistic ways to kill the voices he hears in his head. His distinctive criminal act is to remove a victim's tongue early during the torture he inflicts. He also has a virus that will turn a person’s lungs to mud in 90 minutes. |
Blacksmith | Blacksmith is a Ferro-kinetic crime lord who was once married to Goldface. She founded her own rendition of the Rogues, and created 'the Network', an underground hideaway for Rogues that had been in operation for years without anyone knowing. However, she and her Rogues were defeated by Wally West. | |
Fallout | Neil Borman was a mason hired to do some additional work on a nuclear power plant he and his team had helped construct. During a series of tests an explosion destroyed the floor that Borman and his workmates were working on, and they fell into the reactor's cooling system. His co-workers died, but Borman survived as his body’s molecular structure shifted, transforming into a man composed of high-energy electrons. Unfortunately, Borman had brought his wife and son to work to show them around the plant. Contact with his new body killed them, and in the same way he inadvertently killed several people. Genuinely remorseful, he was imprisoned in Iron Heights Penitentiary, where he was used to power the prison with his new abilities. The Flash found out about the inhumane treatment of Fallout and the disastrous state of Iron Heights, and while he was unable to change the living conditions within, he managed to have the prison's systems changed so Fallout would not have to suffer as the energy within his body was siphoned. | |
Girder | Tony Woodward was shoved into a vat of molten steel from S.T.A.R. Labs after he assaulted a female coworker. He survived, but became composed of scrap metal. He joined the New Rogues and took part in the Rogue War. | |
Double Down | Jeremy Tell lost a card game and then killed the man who won. After this, the cards in the dead man's pocket flew out and covered Tell, becoming his skin. He can use the razor-sharp corners of the cards as weapons by peeling them off of himself. | |
Zoom | (as Hunter Zolomon) Flash Secret Files #3 (November 2001) (as Zoom) Flash vol. 2 #197 (June 2003) | Hunter Zolomon was once a friend of the Flash who worked at the police station. When visiting Iron Heights prison, he was caught in an escape attempt by Gorilla Grodd, who broke Hunter's back. He survived and asked for the Flash to go back in time and stop it from happening. Flash told him that he cannot change history, even for a friend. Hunter got very mad at Flash, and decided to try to do it himself. However the Cosmic Treadmill exploded during the process, and Hunter gained super speed not coming from the Speed Force, but from time itself, making him even faster than the Flash. Zolomon set out to make the Flash a better hero by letting him deal with loss, and killed his unborn twins. This event has since been rectified due to time travel. Zoom recently had his power drained from him by Inertia/Kid Zoom. He is now Hunter Zolomon as he was before the Treadmill blew up in his face. |
Peek-a-Boo | Flash vol. 2 #180 (January 2002) | Lashawn Baez has the power to teleport, and used the power to try to steal a liver for her father who needed a new one. She was stopped by Flash and her father died. She is now a villain. |
The Trickster | Flash vol. 2, #184 (April 2002) | After the original Trickster reformed, teenager Axel Walker found his equipment and stole it, becoming the new Trickster. He joined the Rogues, and took the place of the first Trickster (even though most of the Rogues thought of him as too young and impulsive). During the Rogue War, James Jesse, the original Trickster, became a Rogue again and took back what was his. After Jesse was killed by Deadshot in the Countdown to Final Crisis series, Walker rejoined the Rogues as the Trickster in the Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge miniseries. |
Captain Boomerang | Identity Crisis #3 (October 2004) | Owen Mercer is the son of the original Captain Boomerang and Meloni Thawne (making him Bart Allen's maternal half-brother). He did not know his father until he was an adult. The two practiced together, and Owen found he had bursts of super speed. When his father died he joined the Rogues, but One Year Later he reformed and is now a member of the Suicide Squad. |
One Year Later Flash enemies[edit]
Villain | First appearance | Description |
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Griffin | The Flash: Fastest Man Alive #1 (August 2006) | Griffin Grey was a friend of Bart Allen until he was caught in an explosion at work; he found out he had enhanced speed and strength, and he became a hero, but only for the glory of it. However, the powers made him age faster, and he looked like an old man in days. He tried to find the secret of what kept Jay Garrick young, but could not. He then became a villain, and during a fight with Bart, he was overpowered and died. |
Spin | Flash vol. 2 #238 (May 2008) | Mysterious villain with the ability to magnify people’s fears and make them reality. Spin is actually Dantley Walker, a person in authority at KN News or its parent company. Spin’s secret headquarters, located below the television station’s office, conceals an emaciated captive telepath, plugged into machines and used to track public anxiety so that he can more reliably manipulate it. |
The New 52 Flash enemies[edit]
Villain | First appearance | Description |
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Mob Rule | The Flash #1 (August 2011) | A group consisting of dozens of duplicates of Barry Allen's old friend Manuel Lago. Mob Rule first came into existence when Lago was tortured by a criminal organization called Basilisk. They cut off his fingers one by one and discovered that, because of a CIA experiment, he could regrow lost limbs and each severed limb could grow into a duplicate of Manuel. Initially the duplicates worked with Manuel in his 'one-man' crusade against Basilisk, but when they began to die for no reason in the same order in which they were 'born', their new mission became to find a doctor who can find a cure so they can continue to live. Members of Mob Rule all identify each other by numbers based on the order in which they were 'born'. After encountering Mob Rule trying to steal a human genome re-coder, Barry Allen identifies his old friend Manuel Lago as one of the thieves. Later the next night, Manuel breaks into Barry's apartment being chased by Mob Rule, so Barry follows his friend. When Barry catches up with Manuel he finds his old friend surrounded by copies of himself. The duplicates have kidnapped Iris West and will only let her go if the Flash allows them to take Manuel, to which the Flash reluctantly agrees. Mob Rule had kidnapped Dr. Guerrero, the original doctor who gave Manuel his regenerative powers, and were forcing him to find out why they were dying. Even with Manuel as their hostage, the doctor could not find out why their lifetime was limited to just a few months. They killed Dr. Guerrero and replenished their ranks by cutting off Manuel's fingers and hands again. With Dr. Guerrero dead, they seek out the man who built the genome re-coder, Dr. Darwin Elias, and kidnap him. With the help of his friend and co-worker Patty Spivot, Barry finds Manuel being held by Mob Rule in Dr. Guerrero's lab. Mob Rule finds them and Barry stays behind to give Patty and Manuel a chance to escape. During the conflict it appeared that one of Mob Rule shot Barry in the head; believing him to be dead they left his body behind. |
Turbine | The Flash #8 (August 2011) | Roscoe Hynes, also known as Turbine, is a former Tuskegee airman who led a fleet of prototype war planes on its first combat mission during World War II. However, when he broke formation to test the plane's capabilities, he and his plane completely disappeared inexplicably. Roscoe Hynes and the plane ended up being trapped in the Speed Force and now for the past 70 Years he has been trapped within the Speed Force. However, now with the recent arrival of The Flash, who is in search of his friend Iris West, Roscoe Hynes has found his way home. |
Godspeed | The Flash #1 (2016) | August Heart's brother got shot by criminals. August Heart soon got super speed and killed thugs. The Flash beat him in fight, Godspeed is currently sitting in Iron Heights. |
Papercut | The Flash #5 (August 2016) | Benedict Booker is a metahuman criminal that can manipulate wood. |
Bloodwork | The Flash #29 (August 2016) | Ramsey Rosso is a hemophiliac and self-made metahuman with the ability to control blood and transform his body. |
Enemies created for other media[edit]
The Flash villains 'created' in other media, with no appearances in previous or subsequent comics. Those sharing the names of comic villains, but bearing no other similarities, are noted:
Villain | Media | Actor/Actress |
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Prank | The Flash | Corinne Bohrer |
'Deadly' Nightshade | Richard Burgi | |
The Trachmann | Charley Haywood | |
The Ghost | Anthony Starke | |
Nicholas Pike | Michael Nader |
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- Alan Kistler's Profile On: The Flash - A detailed analysis of the history of the Flash by comic book historian Alan Kistler. Covers information from the 1940s to today, as well as discussions on the various villains and rogues who fought the Flash. Various art scans.[dead link]
Everybody loves a good prank… unless you are the one on the receiving end of the fun. It’s time to hone your pranking skills, not just to make sure you are the best, but so you can avoid being pranked by others.
Yeah, sure, we could go with the old standards, like a blue screen of death screensaver or something like that, but it’s time to use our geek skills and come up with something better. We’ll cover some of the old favorites too, but maybe with a twist. Note: Many of these pranks require being able to access somebody’s computer physically, and many others require them to leave their PC logged in and unattended. You’ll have to plan accordingly.
Disclaimer: Get a sense of humor.
Make the Space Key Write the Word SPACE
Here’s a clever prank for you: Make the victim’s computer actually type the word “SPACE” every time they hit the space bar. They’ll be lost trying to figure out what on earth is going on, and it couldn’t be simpler.
Just create a new AutoHotkey script and drop in the following two lines of code—the first one is to hide the tray icon, and the second sets up the hotkey for replacing the text.
#NoTrayIcon
*Space::Send,SPACE
You’ll probably want to right-click on the script and compile it to an executable before putting it on their computer. I’m not providing a download for this! Just stick it somewhere on their PC, launch it, and watch the fun!
What’s really entertaining is that while I was testing this out, I accidentally pranked myself—my AHK scripts are stored in Dropbox and synced across all my PCs, and I’d forgotten about it on my desktop. Whoops!
Pretend to Install Linux on a Windows User’s PC with a Live CD
This one can’t be simpler—just find somebody at work who turns their PC off at night, come in before them, and boot off a Linux Live CD. Then leave an official-looking memo on their desk saying they’ve been upgraded to Linux, and watch them struggle to figure out what on earth they are doing. You’ll probably want to get rid of the Install icon, of course.
Create a Shutdown Shortcut that Looks like a Folder
This one is really simple to do—just create a shortcut to shutdown.exe on the desktop, and then change the icon to a regular folder, so when they double-click the folder to see what it might contain, they get a nice system shutdown notice instead. You can change the shutdown time to really far in the future so they won’t lose any work, but mostly so they get the full benefit of your nerd skills.
shutdown -s -t 1925000 -c “System error: overloaded porn folder”
If they are using XP, the effect is nice and dramatic, and you can even have some fun with the shutdown time… on Windows 7 you won’t be able to show off your geek skills quite as well, but they’ll still see something that will confuse them.
Note: on Windows 7 or Vista you’d also need to disable UAC or else they’ll see a prompt.
Switch the Keyboard Layout To DVORAK
If you really want to screw with somebody without installing anything, just enable the Dvorak alternate keyboard layout that even most geeks aren’t familiar with. When they type, everything will go haywire.
Head into Control Panel –> Region and Language –> Keyboards –> Change keyboards, then click the Add button and pick the Dvorak layout (or any other random layout you want). Once you’ve done that, use the drop-down above to set the default.
You’ll probably want to flip over to the Language Bar tab and set that to hidden as well, so they won’t be able to figure it out easily.
Plug a Wireless USB Mouse / Keyboard Into Their PC
This usually works out better if the other person has a desktop PC, because you can hide the wireless mouse or keyboard receiver behind their PC, and then every so often type an extra letter, or move the mouse slightly. If you do it right, you can have some fun with this one for a long time. The great thing is that this should work for almost anybody, including people that keep their computer locked all the time.
If they do have a laptop and a wireless mouse, you can simply replace their wireless mouse with an identical-looking one, since it won’t work for their PC. They’ll assume their mouse batteries are dead, and you can move the mouse pointer around the screen with their mouse. The prank won’t last as long, but it will be every bit as fun.
Obviously the picture, courtesy of ehavir, shows a wired keyboard—but it’ll work much better with a wireless setup.
Stick a Message Into their System Clock
We’ve covered this before, but you can easily stick custom text into the clock that sits in the taskbar—and most people won’t have a clue how to switch it back. Just head into Control Panel –> Region and Language –> Additional Settings –> Time, and change the AM or PM symbols to whatever you want. Or you can read how to do it for Windows 7 or Vista.
Reverse Their Trackpad or Mouse Wheel Scrolling
You can really throw somebody for a loop if you use a simple AutoHotkey script to flip their trackpad to scroll in the opposite direction. They’ll be completely confused! If they happen to have a laptop with a Synaptics touchpad, you can actually tweak this setting right in the Control Panel –> Mouse dialog, but otherwise, check out our article covering the script method, that should work anywhere.
Add Common Typos or Funny Words to MS Word’s Dictionary or AutoComplete
There’s any number of possibilities for this one, and the sky is really the limit—the idea is that you put something custom into the AutoCorrect so whatever they type gets replaced with something else.
You can go subtle with it, and just replace a properly typed word with a typo instead, or you can get in their face with something more fun—like making anytime they type their name end up replacing it with “<Name> is a jerk”. Loads of fun.
For Word 2007 or 2010, head to the Office button –> Options –> Proofing –> AutoCorrect Options. For previous versions… I have no idea. If you want this to be system-wide, you can use AutoHotkey instead.
Setup Task Scheduler Jobs to Launch Random Apps (or a Web Page)
Even a serious geek is going to be pretty lost on how to troubleshoot a new tab repeatedly opening to a certain page every couple of minutes, if you bury that inside the task scheduler. Just go in and create a new task, run through the wizard and pick the browser executable, plug the site name into the arguments box, and then set the schedule to repeat the task every 5 minutes.
Set the Mouse Pointer to Look Always Busy (to Make Their PC Look Like It’s Hanging)
Nice and simple, but oh so fun! Just head into Control Panel –> Mouse –> Pointers and change the Normal pointer to the busy one. They’ll think their computer is hanging all the time, but it’s really not. For extra fun, you could make the mouse pointers gigantic.
Activate High Contrast Mode (with a Single Hotkey!)
There’s a built-in accessibility option that can be very confusing to somebody who doesn’t know how to turn it off, and it requires only pressing one shortcut key sequence:
Shift + Alt + Printscreen
That’s it. Once you press that key combo, their desktop will get flipped to the high contrast mode—you can press it again to go back to normal. The great thing is that even if their computer is locked, you can enable high contrast with the icon on the lower left corner. On Mac OS X, you can press Ctrl+Opt+Cmd+8 to invert the screen’s colors.
The Old-School Favorite: Move the Desktop Icons, Take a Screenshot, Set as the Wallpaper
Most geeks have done this at some point in their career, because it’s both simple and irritating, especially for somebody who isn’t expecting it. The basic principle works one of a couple of ways:
- Take a screenshot of the desktop with the icons where they are, set it as the wallpaper, and then hide the desktop icons.
- Move the desktop icons around, or create bogus icons, take a screenshot, and then set it as the wallpaper. This way some icons work, and some don’t.
- Take the screenshot of the desktop, and then hide the taskbar below the bottom of the screen before setting the wallpaper (this only works on XP). Even better: flip the image upside down before doing it.
The result looks something like the image above, assuming you followed the second idea and created a folder on the desktop that they’d be sure to notice right away. They’ll keep clicking, but nothing will happen.
Bonus? Combine this with the shutdown shortcut so when they do figure it out and try and open the folder… it’ll give them the shutdown prank too!
Alright, so that was actually twelve pranks. Prank wisely.
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