April Fools Day: The 'Rosebud Technology' hoax & Xanthoma
On the day we celebrate tricks, it's perhaps a good time to remember a major computer industry hoax: Rosebud Technology. At the April Macworld Expo in San Francisco (this is no joke), a group of Mac tricksters hoped to lure the press into covering an exciting and new networking technology for the Mac. Of course, some took the bait.