{"id":23926,"date":"2026-04-01T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/?p=23926"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:02:34","slug":"1-april-in-der-it-wenn-selbst-der-server-lacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/2026\/04\/01\/1-april-in-der-it-wenn-selbst-der-server-lacht\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fools&#8217; Day in IT \u2013 When Even the Server Laughs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_23926 social_share_privacy clearfix 1.6.4 locale-en_US sprite-en_US\"><\/div><div class=\"twoclick-js\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\njQuery(document).ready(function($){if($('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_23926')){$('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_23926').socialSharePrivacy({\"txt_help\":\"Wenn Sie diese Felder durch einen Klick aktivieren, werden Informationen an Facebook, Twitter, Flattr, Xing, t3n, LinkedIn, Pinterest oder Google eventuell ins Ausland \\u00fcbertragen und unter Umst\\u00e4nden auch dort gespeichert. 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Between tickets, updates, and the third reboot of the day, there\u2019s sometimes still time for a little April Fools\u2019 prank.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Situations that might happen today:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>At the office:<br \/>\n\u201cHave you heard? You have to pay to use the internet today!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>IT Support:<br \/>\nUser: \u201cMy screen is black!\u201d<br \/>\nIT: \u201cIs the computer turned on?\u201d<br \/>\nUser: \u201cWait\u2026 it is now. Thanks!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Programmer joke:<br \/>\nWhy do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas?<br \/>\nBecause 31 OCT = 25 DEC.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New \u201cfeatures\u201d that are suddenly announced are also particularly popular:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An AI that automatically shortens meetings if someone still wants to say something.<\/li>\n<li>An update that automatically makes passwords even more complicated\u2014now with hieroglyphs and emojis.<\/li>\n<li>Or the printer that only works if you speak nicely to it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And of course, everyone in IT knows this one line: \u201cI didn\u2019t do anything, suddenly everything was gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind: If something isn\u2019t working in IT today\u2014don\u2019t worry.<br \/>\nIt could be a bug.It could be an update.<br \/>\nOr just a very successful April Fools\u2019 joke.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy April 1st\u2014and remember: Sometimes the real joke is the Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Responsible for the content of this article is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itc.rwth-aachen.de\/cms\/it-center\/it-center\/profil\/team\/~epvp\/mitarbeiter-pvz-\/?allou=1&amp;gguid=PER-3UACJPP&amp;lidx=1\">Merrit Mielke<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5299,"featured_media":23935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,305],"tags":[659],"class_list":["post-23926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun-facts","category-themen","tag-tipps-tricks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23926"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23958,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23926\/revisions\/23958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}