Word: prank
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When search giant Google announced on April 1 it was road-testing a new Web-based e-mail service, a lot of tech types assumed it was an April Fool's prank: One gigabyte of storage memory per account, for free? Yahoo charges $10 a year for a tenth of that space. Yet Gmail is for real. It sorts, searches and spam-filters your e-mail. Just two catches: it won't be widely available for up to six months (test accounts are being offered only to employees' friends and families right now). Also, every message is sponsored, often based...
When search giant Google announced on April 1 it was road testing a new Web-based e-mail service, a lot of tech types assumed it was an April Fool's prank: One gigabyte of storage memory per account, for free? Yahoo charges $10 a year for a tenth of that space. Yet Gmail is for real. It sorts, searches and spam-filters your e-mail. Just two catches: it won't be widely available for up to six months (test accounts are being offered only to employees' friends and families right now). Also, every message is sponsored, often based...
...prank was planned about a week in advance, according to Stewart, who said the original plan was to send the first-years to Adams House. However, in light of Adams House’s excluding first-years from lunch and dinner, Stewart said that the plan had to be adjusted to other Houses...
...many in Kirkland and Eliot Houses seemed unaware of the prank altogether...
Some students in both Houses agreed that the prank did not accomplish anything...