After you read these historic jokes, check out the Special Collections index for the best prank postings on 6 foolish topics: RFCs, Microsoft, US Government, Linux, Usenet, and virii.

Here they are, democratically (kinda) decided upon, duely authorized and certified, top 20 fools:

1. JPEG Virus Alert - 1994 - 953 votes (note: Really folks... this was a hoax about JPG files. But as of September 2004, it seems the mightly Microsoft corporation has made it real :)
2. Microsoft Bids to Acquire Catholic Church - 1994 - 738 votes
3. Creators admit UNIX, C Hoax - 1991 - 514 votes
4. USSR on Usenet, the infamous 'kremvax' post (and replies part 1 and part 2) - 1984 - 397 votes
5. Microsoft Windows for the Macintosh - 1991 - 115 votes
6. Internet Downtime - 1996 (and its counter part Internet Cleaning - 1997) - 98 votes
7. RFC 1149: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers - 1990 - 70 votes
8. Linux'95 final release - 1995 - 64 votes
9. CERT Advisory CA-96.13 - Alien/OS Vulnerability - 1996 - 63 votes
10. NASA Headline News: The Congressional Budget Explorer Module (CBEM) - 1994 - 55 votes
11. BMW Introduces It's Newest Innovation: ROAD WARMERS - 1989 - 51 votes
12. 911 Chatline - 1994 - 47 votes
13. BIG.MONEY.FAST - 1994 - 44 votes
14. Siggraph '91 Preliminary Program - 1991 - 41 votes (This is the webmasters personal favorite)
15. Apple Releases New Macintosh Extension: Caffeine Manager - 1992 - 34 votes
16. Fallwell Ministries takes over TSR, Inc. - 1994 - 34 votes
17. McDonalds and EUnet join to offer Global "Internet in a Lunchbox" - 1994 - 24 votes
18. FAQ: Top-level international planet domain names - 1993 - 22 votes
19. RFC 748: Telnet Randomly-Lose Option - 1978 - 20 votes
20. TeXhax Digest, Friday, April 1, 1988 - 1988 - 17 votes
21. Gene Spafford warns about April Fools on the net (and replies) - 1988 - 13 votes

Past Favorites, and those ALMOST getting into the top10 list:

• Bob the Windows Man - 1995
• RFC 2324 - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) - 1998
• Press Release: Announcing the hp58 - 1997
• Apple Releases Jewish System Software v1.0 - 1997
• 17mm format to replace 16mm format - 1997
• Press Release: Announcing the hp58 - 1997
• Network Access Reform from Vice President Al Gore - 1995
• A letter from Steve Case, President of AOL - 1995
• FBI 'Make Money Fast' Scam - 1994
• Bill Clinton warns the world about April 1 - 1995
• Usenet to be replaced - 1993
• April Fools pranks from Sun - 1998

Also: Don't miss the rest of the Special Collections.