Google Celebrates April Fool 2010 via Gmail

April 1st, 2010 | by admin |

Today is 1 April which is also known as April fool day.In this day peoples try to make their friends,relatives and colleagues fool.By doing different types of unexpected acts.Most the big companies e.g. apple,microsoft and google also celebrates this day by doing something different.

Today i got shocked when i opened gmail to check my emails.When i was just about to enter my username and password.I realized something different in gmail.First i thought that it is possible that i have changed the language by mistake so i started search for the language which i can understand and it is off course English.

But after having a look on the whole gmail windows.I wasn’t able to find any language options.I was just thinking that what suddenly has happened to gmail, then april fool day has come in my mind and i realized that this must be joke by google on April fool day.I really like this unique idea of google to celebrate April fool day.

A cool blog spot by google says that.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html

“At 6:01 am Pacific Time, during routine maintenance at one of our datacenters, the frontend web servers in that particular datacenter started failing to render the letter ‘a’ for a subset of users. As error rates escalated, the strain spread to other datacenters. We worked quickly to avoid a cascading failure of the entire alphabet by implementing a stopgap solution that limited the damage to the letters ‘a,’ ‘e,’ ‘i,’ ‘o,’ and ‘u.’ As a result, we’re experiencing Gmail’s first temporary vowel outage. (We’re still investigating whether the letter ‘y’ is impacted and will post an update here shortly.)”

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