Aprille is ye foolyst monthe

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Chaucer

WHAN that Aprille with his foolynges soote
The folk of Engelond hath perced to the roote

In this classic opening to The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer was of course alluding to TS Eliot's poem The Waste Land. And Eliot himself was exploring how the internet of the 21st century would both enable and undermine discourse and democracy.

[JoeP]

Anyway, Stack Overflow, the Q&A site where I find all my coding answers, looked like it had been forced to restore from 1990s backups:

Announcing the Stack Overflow Time Machine - Meta Stack Overflow





Neon colours, scrolling images, and glitter following your cursor. Fortunately there is a make it stop button.

[Ymir's blood]

Did Comic Sans even exist back then?

[BrotherMan]

Comic Sans has always been.

[JoeP]

In the beginning there was Comic Sans,
And it was without form, and void;
And darkness was upon the face of the font.

And God said, Let there be Arial Light: and there was Arial Light.
And God saw Arial Light, that it was good: and God divided the professional fonts from the joke fonts.

[Ymir's blood]

In Belgium, this day is also known as the "Day of the innocent children" or "Day of the stupid children"