Google CADIE, Google Gulp, and April 1st RFCs

By now, inquisitive Google users will have taken a look at CADIE and maybe even read about CADIE for a bit before remembering earlier Google April 1st announcements like Google Gulp (BETA)™ with Auto-Drink™ (LIMITED RELEASE). or its PigeonRank™ announcement from 2002.

Google’s hoaxes are high-profile continuations of an Internet tradition that dates back to at least 30 years, when the Internet Engineering Task Force published RFC 748, entitled “Telnet Randomly-Lose Option”; PigeonRank harkens back specifically to RFC 1149 (A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers).