General cleaning of the Internet
IN 1997 year, Internet users on behalf of the Network Services Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology e-mailed letters stating, what with 31 March to 2 April there will be a "general cleaning". The authors recommended disconnecting all computers from the network.
As stated in the letter, large-scale preventive work was required to cleanse the Internet of electronic waste, which has accumulated over several years of work. Five powerful Japanese robots Toshiba ML-2274 were supposed to remove inactive email addresses, broken sites and web resources of hackers.
Subscribers of telephone exchanges were previously played in a similar way. They were asked to wrap telephone tubes in cellophane bags, to collect dust, which could get enough sleep during prevention.
Defective bras
1 April 1982 the British newspaper Daily Mail published a message about the sale 10 thousand defective bras. The publication claimed, that for the supporting frame they used copper wire, which was supposed to go to the manufacture of a fire alarm. And copper, interacting with nylon and heating from body heat, can produce static electricity. Owners of defective bras, in this way, interfered with the body- and radio stations.
Tell, that even experts believed this joke. for example, British Telecom chief engineer allegedly ordered, to check, do the employees of the company wear brass underwear.
