Hoaxes and trolls used to be more fun in my day.

Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
Listen up kids... before you was born there were a real mean trolls, with cooked screenshots and photos of modified hardware. False predictions used to be real specific.. e.g.:



"On Oct 15th, 1997, Power Computing will release a portable! It will come with a 200 mHz 604 CPU with 60 mHz bus. I work at a top secret lab at PCC."



Then the troll would slave all night cooking up a picture of a laptop with Photoshop 3.0 and post it. MOSR would report it, and we'd all have a good laugh.



Now you've got punk kids posting:



"Something is coming out at MacWorld and oh it is gonna be real cool. Apple is so cool. Sorry I have to be so vague. My life is in danger as I type this."



Add some text clipped from a news website and you've got idiots clamoring for more.



Oh I pine for the trolls of yesteryear. What were YOUR favorite hoaxes?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 18
    Indeed, we need graphical trolls to replace these ascii trolls.
  • Reply 2 of 18
    andersanders Posts: 6,523member
    [quote]Originally posted by MacAgent:

    <strong>Indeed, we need graphical trolls to replace these ascii trolls.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yes. Youngsters today they get it all sooo easy. When I was their age we had to travel to every board member showing a working model before we could fool them into believing us. I still remeber the dark nights where I made G3s with my bare hands and had to make my own plastics to make a fake iMac.
  • Reply 3 of 18
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    It's the logical progression of things: from the sublime to the ridiculous, the classical to the baroque.
  • Reply 4 of 18
    My favorite hoax was one I pulled off with a little help from Michealm800.



    We cooked up a little screenie of Photoshop 6.5 running off OS X. Mailed out to several stupid news sites (Think Secret, MacOS X.org etc...)



    They bit! And we won...



    <a href="http://www.thinksecret.com/features/photoshopx2.html"; target="_blank">See the TS article here.</a>



    I have the PSD if ya'll don't beleive me.



    Funny thing was, we were pretty accurate and only a week behind the ACTUAL 7.0 beta 43.



    <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />



    Mac Guru
  • Reply 5 of 18
    brussellbrussell Posts: 9,812member
    [quote]Originally posted by jutus:

    <strong>What were YOUR favorite hoaxes?</strong><hr></blockquote>That one about the G5s coming out in Jan. 2001. Now THAT was a good one. Had us all going for a while.
  • Reply 6 of 18
    [quote]Originally posted by Mac Guru:

    <strong>My favorite hoax was one I pulled off with a little help from Michealm800.



    We cooked up a little screenie of Photoshop 6.5 running off OS X. Mailed out to several stupid news sites (Think Secret, MacOS X.org etc...)



    They bit! And we won...



    <a href="http://www.thinksecret.com/features/photoshopx2.html"; target="_blank">See the TS article here.</a>



    I have the PSD if ya'll don't beleive me.



    Funny thing was, we were pretty accurate and only a week behind the ACTUAL 7.0 beta 43.



    <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />



    Mac Guru</strong><hr></blockquote>





    Ha.
  • Reply 7 of 18
    I would love to see the original Photoshop file. Please post it.
  • Reply 8 of 18
    newnew Posts: 3,244member
    You did a great job on the "fake" PS 6.5, one can only tell its not real by comparing it to the real thing!
  • Reply 9 of 18
    markmark Posts: 143member
    I still chuckle when I think of that mouse/soapdish/satanic Play-Doh accessory AI wrote a report on a while back. Didn't that qualify as a hoax?



    Oh - and that time IP logging told us (too many usernames to list here) was really (more usernames here.) We had a good laugh over that one. And no, we'll never tell!





    Cheers,



    Mark.
  • Reply 10 of 18
    markmark Posts: 143member
    Come to think of it, wasn't it Robo who was responsible for that 'mouse?' :eek:
  • Reply 11 of 18
    [quote]Originally posted by Mark:

    <strong>Come to think of it, wasn't it Robo who was responsible for that 'mouse?' :eek: </strong><hr></blockquote>I believe robo was responsible for "a" mouse that was bluish. The foot mouse was by someone else I think.
  • Reply 12 of 18
    robo made a funky mouse control panel with funky mouse included, and sent it to MOSR.
  • Reply 13 of 18
    Anyone here remember the Spencer F Katt impersonator? He had so called rumors. I even recall seeing the real katt talking about him on ZDTV.
  • Reply 14 of 18
    Do none of you remember the real hoaxes?
  • Reply 15 of 18
    amoryaamorya Posts: 1,103member
    We should do an AI community hoax - get it out to as many other sites as we can. If we all work together as a community, we could invent something big and get the pics to prove it





    Amorya
  • Reply 16 of 18
    roborobo Posts: 469member
    Yeah, this was mine, from around March 1999. MOSR ran it, though Ryan Meader mentioned that 'MOSR Operatives' weren't sure if it was geniune or not... Come to think of it, that's pretty embarassing for me considering some of the other stuff they've run.



    Heh.. the pic dates itself. We were still stuck with puck mice back then and this was my idea of what OS X was going to look like!



    <a href="http://robo.cx/ai/OS-X-mouse-fake.png"; target="_blank">http://robo.cx/ai/OS-X-mouse-fake.png</a>;









    -robo



    [ 12-30-2001: Message edited by: robo ]</p>
  • Reply 16 of 18
    andersanders Posts: 6,523member
    [quote]Originally posted by Amorya:

    <strong>We should do an AI community hoax - get it out to as many other sites as we can. If we all work together as a community, we could invent something big and get the pics to prove it





    Amorya</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Then it should be undercover action and no more talk here. Time for the AI underground mailing list to go into action
  • Reply 18 of 18
    My iBook is down for tonight (Damned thing won't boot) but I'll TRY to get a copy. If I find it I'll post it.



    Mac Guru
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