Google's April Fools Day Joke - 2008

Joining Google's April Fools Day jokes of yesteryear (Google Gulp, Pigeon Rank and Google Paper) we now have Gmail Custom Time.

Gmail Custom Time allows you to:

• Pre-date your messages: You tell us what time you would have wanted your email sent, and we'll take care of the rest. Need an email to arrive 6 hours ago? No problem.
• Mark as read or unread: Take sending emails to the past one step further.  We let you make emails look like they've been read all along.
• Make them count: Use your custom time stamped messages wisely -- each Gmail user gets ten per year.         
• Worry less: Forget your finance reports. Forget your anniversary. We'll make it look like you remembered.

You can get more information about Gmail Custom Time, including testimonials, terms of use, etc here.   For more April Fools Day jokes and dorkery from the tech industry, check out Mashable's Top 5 list, which includes  ThinkGeek's BetaMax to HD-DVD converter and Mahalo's "Interview" with Steve Jobs. 

 

Comments

[marylandbluecrab]

I can't believe that YouTube didn't make the Top 5 list for their genius idea to RickRoll everyone who clicked on any video on the front page yesterday.

Rick Astley was in my head ALL DAY LONG. I'm never gonna give him up.