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List of all Ticalc.org fake news since 1999
« on: October 25, 2010, 02:55:36 pm »
Since the list of news articles at ticalc.org is very long, I thought it would be fun for those who like joke articles to list all fake news in one post. Hoping I did not forget any, here they are below:

2 january 2011 - New Year resolutions for staff - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/147/147088.html
30 august 2010 - WFRNG TI-Nspire port - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/146/146660.html
1 april 2010 - File upload process changes - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/146/146123.html
1 april 2009 - Web 2.0 for calcs - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/144/144892.html
16 april 2008 - Mirage OS 1.3 Beta - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/143/143773.html
1 april 2008 - Magnus death - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/143/143713.html
23 september 2007 - How to get reviews accepted at ticalc.org - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/142/142928.html
1 april 2007 - In-program ads - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/141/141904.html
5 november 2006 - Calc.org redesign - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/140/140165.html
25 august 2006 - Nick totally owned - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/13/139/139457.html
20 june 2006 - Ticalc 9.996098483 Anniversary - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/13/138/138539.html
15 January 2006 - How to get files accepted at ticalc.org - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/13/134/134579.html
10 october 2005 - The Book of TI - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/13/131/131734.html
8 may 2005 - Last windows 3.1 computer located - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/12/127/127784.html
1 april 2005 - File invitation system - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/12/126/126141.html
13 January 2005 - Jonathan Katz publishes pic of himself - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/12/123/123172.html
27 september 2004 - Nick Disabato marries TI-89 - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/11/118/118942.html
9 august 2004 - WFRNG ASM port - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/11/115/115018.html
30 june 2004 - Joey Gannon causes car wreck - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/11/113/113258.html
1 april 2004 - initial public offering completed - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/10/108/108150.html
31 january 2004 - Calculator chili - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/10/103/103499.html
13 january 2004 - Joey Gannon in the RPN cult - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/10/102/102245.html
7 january 2004 - Ticalc helps the Earth - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/10/101/101225.html
23 april 2003 - File archivers discussing peeps - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/8/87/87554.html
1 april 2003 - Voyage 400 - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/8/85/85069.html
1 april 2003 - Ticalc merchandise - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/8/84/84994.html
1 february 2003 - pending queue reaches 1000 files - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/7/78/78717.html
1 april 2001 - Ticalc micro-payments - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/6/61/61213.html
21 june 2001 - ticalc 5th anniversary - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/5/51/51230.html
2 june 2001 - ticalc pending low - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/5/50/50685.html
1 april 2001 - Ads - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/4/48/48338.html
10 february 2001 - Calc.org updates - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/4/46/46410.html
19 july 2000 - Wacky Fun Random Numbar Generator - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/3/38/38229.html
1 april 2000 - April 2000 newsletter - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/3/30/30161.html
1 april 2000 - Steve Whittaker Seizes ticalc.org - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/3/30/30145.html
1 february 2000 - Nick Disabato bday party - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/2/25/25809.html
1 january 2000 - The next 100 ticalc years - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/2/24/24246.html
1 january 2000 - New millenium not Y2K compliant - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/2/24/24245.html
8 october 1999 - Post-it news items - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/1/16/16960.html
28 september 1999 - Kirk Meyer seeks girlfriend - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/1/16/16247.html
24 september 1999 - Radioactive TI-89 - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/1/15/15975.html
6 september 1999 - POTM acronym lawsuit from Playboy - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/1/14/14996.html
12 august 1999 - New design Hollywood Gala - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/1/14/14076.html
1 april 1999 - POTM award - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/0/9/9917.html
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Re: List of all Ticalc.org fake news since 1999
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2010, 03:05:43 pm »
Awesome. < 3>
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Re: List of all Ticalc.org fake news since 1999
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2010, 03:10:33 pm »
The ironic thing about April 2000 is that 6.5 years later, Ticalc.org put ads on their site for real. :P

Also in Jan 2000 they predicted this pretty well *points to 2006* http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/2/24/24246.html :P
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« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2010, 03:17:56 pm »
fff, the multilingual newsletter from april 2000 contains erroneous Swedish grammar. ;_;
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Re: List of all Ticalc.org fake news since 1999
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2010, 03:21:05 pm »
It was translated using a translator. On top of that back in 2004 translators were absolutely terrible. Now imagine in 2000. :P

The French part of the newsletter is atrocious x.x
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Re: List of all Ticalc.org fake news since 1999
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2010, 03:23:44 pm »
now this is a most excellent list :3
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Re: List of all Ticalc.org fake news since 1999
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2010, 03:29:10 pm »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on October 25, 2010, 03:21:05 pm
It was translated using a translator. On top of that back in 2004 translators were absolutely terrible. Now imagine in 2000. :P
It's actually better than what I expected from an automatic translator. There are only three errors, and they are errors that can be slightly seen even in semi-professional translations from English to Swedish...
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Re: List of all Ticalc.org fake news since 1999
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2010, 03:32:31 pm »
Yeah. Also the bad part is that there are a lot of people who have worse grammar in their own language than if it was translated from another language with an old translator. I don't really mind bad grammar/spelling, though, since there are a lot of people who don't speak certain languages as native languages, although I like when those who speak the language at home at least do some effort to make sure their post is readable.
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Re: List of all Ticalc.org fake news since 1999
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2010, 07:50:12 pm »
I updated the list above with the following joke articles:

13 January 2005 - Jonathan Katz publishes pic of himself - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/12/123/123172.html
31 january 2004 - Calculator chili - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/10/103/103499.html
7 january 2004 - Ticalc helps the Earth - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/10/101/101225.html

Somehow I missed them last time. I'll check again eventually to see if I missed more.
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Re: List of all Ticalc.org fake news since 1999
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2010, 02:48:44 am »
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Re: List of all Ticalc.org fake news since 1999
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2010, 02:51:42 am »
Oh wow I lol'ed at that first one. I also remember the 2nd one. Mirage download page automatically redirected to a rickroll for a while. You had to press ESC before the redirects occurs.
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Re: List of all Ticalc.org fake news since 1999
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2010, 06:20:17 am »
Nice work DJ... WOW I read some of this thinking they were true! Like the WFRNG in asm :S
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« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2010, 06:24:10 am »
Quote from: ScoutDavid on December 04, 2010, 06:20:17 am
Nice work DJ... WOW I read some of this thinking they were true! Like the WFRNG in asm :S
Are you saying you don't know that Asm WFRNG exists? D:
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Re: List of all Ticalc.org fake news since 1999
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2010, 06:26:42 am »
Quote from: JosJuice on December 04, 2010, 06:24:10 am
Quote from: ScoutDavid on December 04, 2010, 06:20:17 am
Nice work DJ... WOW I read some of this thinking they were true! Like the WFRNG in asm :S
Are you saying you don't know that Asm WFRNG exists? D:

There is an OS... Which was made in Asm, so it exists. Maybe there is another one, though
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Re: List of all Ticalc.org fake news since 1999
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2010, 06:28:09 am »
The fake article about Asm WFRNG has a link to Asm WFRNG. It doesn't work properly in shells, though.
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