Google Prank Not Funny?

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It would seem that some people, obviously lacking a sense of humor, didn’t think Google’s prank this year was very funny. C’mon, everyone else thought it was funny! What do you think?

Gmail Custom Time lets users send emails with a custom date in the past, putting it in the recipients inbox at the old date: How do I use it? Just click “Set custom time” from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient’s inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or unread by selecting the appropriate option.
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Arent youtube pranks google pranks now???

because i posted a good one in WLWC
 
Would be a better April fools joke if you could actually use it, then I could prank some friends badly.
 
I don't think the guy thought it wasn't funny because he lacks a sense of humor - I don't think it was very funny. Made me smile - but that is about it.
 
I think it's pretty funny. I don't know what the ruccus is, it's not like it FORCES you to use a different date.
 
Dont be a sour puss, I thought the Google pranks (Virgle and this Gmail one) were great! People need to lighten up.
 
I think our society lacks a very important element as commonly referred to as "Humor"
 
I had clicked on it a day or so ago, when I first saw it....The link didn't even work.

FAIL
 
The Virgle one was well thought out and I think the gmail one was brilliantly funny. So far, Google has made me laugh every time*. But yes, being able to use it would have been icing on the cake. They could have been automatically labeled as "time warped" or something. Anything that makes use of an "e-flux capacitor" has got to be good :cool:

*The term "Every time" is used loosely here to represent the number 10.
 
I was having trouble when I first was running Gentoo on my laptop. It was messing up the system clock whenever it shut down, and I couldn't get NTP working. Those days are long gone, but as a consequence, any emails I sent with Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Evolution (don't remember which I was using), contained this wildly inaccurate time.

Anyway, I was in a group of three people working on a Comp Sci project, and I was sending them emails from the future. The story was that "Future Mark" was sending them emails to prevent a disastrous outcome.

In the end, it turned out that a necessary kernel option was disabled, and I don't remember how I fixed NTP...
 
not funny at all, but certainly nothing to get angry about. i get emails once in a while when the originating SMTP server obviously doesn't have the right date on it, I dont think its funny, i think its stupid.
 
Monkey God said:
not funny at all, but certainly nothing to get angry about. i get emails once in a while when the originating SMTP server obviously doesn't have the right date on it, I dont think its funny, i think its stupid.
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kind have to agree, its not that hard to send email from "the past" if you trick the right servers.

I get email from the past daily from stupid spamers.
 
Personally, I thought it was great - Knowing that setting dates on servers etc could cause email to appear like it was from the wrong time, it seemed semi-plausable, and pretty funny.....

The Virgle thing was WAY WAY WAY over thought, and was so obvious it was not funny.
 
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