Famous Internet Pranks

There are so many famous internet pranks that are played all the time. Some of them get forwarded to people as email pranks as well. To send email pranks, all you have to do is get online, find a random prank, send it across and you can have your laughs. Most of the most famous internet pranks all have humble beginnings. They start off as email pranks until someone posts them on a website from where they go viral. These internet pranks have a wider reach and an equally wider impact. Care should be taken to distinguish email pranks from actual scams. This article will give you a brief overview of the top seven internet pranks that have been popular for various reasons.

At number seven on the list of famous internet pranks is the one where email pranks started going around stating that the UN was going to shut down the internet. They stated that the internet led to an uncontrollable flow of information that was harming the economies of the world as well as the dot com debacle that greatly affected the economies of many countries. At number six we have the email pranks that went out saying that on 1st April, at 10am, if you stood outside your door and waved, the Google satellite would take your picture and you would show up on the Google map of your neighborhood.

A funny one of the internet pranks is where a German company said that they have created something called the iShave. This works as an attachment to the iPod, so in addition to listening to your music, you can just connect this and have a great shave while you are at it. Another one of these is where a British bank revealed on their site that they had downloadable money. They wanted to help people at home who could not come to the bank to get their money to just print it out at home. Unfortunately, for them, the Bank of England said no.

Amongst the top three internet pranks is one about Britannica deciding to buy Wikipedia. They said that Wikipedia was not really a free encyclopaedia after all and everything had its price. It was now going to be called Wikimedia. In addition, they also said that any changes that were going to be made would cost the user about $99. Another on the lines of these email pranks is when someone said that Napster would be buying out Microsoft for the tune of $328 billion dollars.

However, by far the best of these famous internet pranks is the one called Pigeonrank. Google said that pigeons were at the heart of their search technology and were trained to compute the values of web pages. They said that they have successfully trained pigeons to distinguish results that were flashed at an alarming rate in front of them. The pages that received the most pecks were obviously the highest rated and returned to the user page. You can search online for many such internet pranks.