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Author Topic: Google's 2011 April Fool's joke Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-01-2011 08:10 AM                     Check out Google G-Mail Motion. http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 04-01-2011 10:13 AM                     Also, youtube (which is owned by google for some time now) has a button on each video for allowing it to go into a mode like it's a movie from 1911. It adds stereotypical music that accompanied movies of the time period plus visual effects to make it look like an actual print. For being a real-time thing, it's pretty well-done.  |  IP: Logged Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-01-2011 01:10 PM                     I saw the 1911 logo on the youtube home page but wasn't sure what it was about. I figured it had to do with April 1st but didn't see the tie in anywhere. I even watched a few videos, but didn't see the button that you described. I'll have to go back and check it out.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 04-01-2011 01:23 PM                     Not every video has it for some reason. It's a joke saying that it takes you back to how videos were sent to youtube via horse-drawn carriage in 1911.  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-01-2011 03:02 PM                     Speaking of April Fool's jokes: I can't help but wish these were for real.  |  IP: Logged

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