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April 1st just happened, didn’t it?

April 1st, why do you always have to be such a crazy day?  Let us give you some back story.

So, on March 31st, we discovered we were having some billing issues with our hosting company.  Apparently, we were using way too much bandwidth!  That night, we figured out that if we removed all the images from the main pages, we could greatly reduce how much data we were transferring.  So at midnight on April 1st, we did what we had to do, which was to remove all the images and convert all our comics into ASCII art.

Exactly 24 hours after that moment, something amazing happened.  Instantly, all of our bandwidth issues were resolved and we didn’t have to worry about how much data we were transferring anymore!  It was so strange that it happened at the moment it was no longer April 1st, but we’re not complaining.

We’ve had some crazy stuff happen on April 1st in the past.  In 2008, we had a big fight and in 2009, someone let the bees out all over the site.  Even last year, we started up Right-Handed Toons, but came right back to LHT after the 24 hours of April 1st were up.  So weird!

-LHT

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10 Responses to “April 1st just happened, didn’t it?”

  1. @UncomfyHug says:
    April 2, 2011 at 1:29 pm

    Ok, I'm totally dumb. Duh! April 1st! Shoot. Well, I clicked on a bunch of links for you anyway. Well played, sir.

  2. @UncomfyHug says:
    April 2, 2011 at 1:32 pm

    Love the bees one too. That's hilarious!

  3. @redshirttt says:
    April 2, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    I didn't realize it was an April Fool's joke either! WELL PLAYED!!!

  4. Kirkpad says:
    April 2, 2011 at 5:30 pm

    Huh? You guys didn't notice? The fridaynosaur strip even said april fools on it. You can't trust ANYTHING you see on the 1st of April.

  5. Olav Torkson says:
    April 3, 2011 at 6:15 am

    Weeeeeeeiiiiirrdddd…

  6. danineteen says:
    April 3, 2011 at 8:04 am

    Awww, you guys seriously always have the best April Fools jokes. I’m so glad you wrote this post; I missed on on the ASCII stuff on Friday.

  7. Matt Giuca says:
    April 4, 2011 at 2:27 am

    Hmm, something is fishy about this bandwidth story. I checked the size of the text comic and it was 143 kilobytes — three times *larger* than the image version. I suppose that's what happens when you don't use compression. Your web hosting company probably realised this so they let you continue serving the image version.

  8. Name says:
    April 4, 2011 at 3:48 pm

    i actually went online just to see what joke ya'll would play.

  9. evanism says:
    April 22, 2011 at 5:07 am

    I feel, somehow, that this was not drawn with ones left hand! Unless, you have become magically better, then, mysteriously worse…. a trick?