Google (GOOG) has a reputation for playing April Fool’s
pranks. (This year’s renaming
the site Topeka as a twist on Topeka,
Kansas calling itself Google is pretty amusing.) And it had an
impressive retro one on YouTube, recasting
some videos into a “text” mode, similar to how programmers once
used ASCII text to simulate images in the days before laser and ink-jet
printers. However, this cute twist backfired as users complained heavily
about the new video page interface that YouTube had separately
introduced.
Here’s one example of the videos in normal video mode. Unfortunately, embedding a link to the text mode doesn’t seem to work,
so click
here for that version:
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