April Fools Day has existed since at least 1582. It was then that France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian. Before that date, the New Year was celebrated for eight days, until April 1. But when the Gregorian calendar became official, New Years Day became January 1.
Back then, news traveled slowly and many people were unaware of the change for several years. Others, although they knew it, resisted the change and continued to celebrate the New Year on April 1 as they always had. Both groups, the ignorant and the traditional, became objects of ridicule and were labeled as “fools.” They were often sent on “silly errands” and made the victims of other practical jokes.
This lighthearted bullying slowly turned into a prank tradition on the first day of April. You may want to take a look at the Museum of Hoaxes’s “100 Greatest April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time,” which includes two worth mentioning. Before April 1, 2000, a Dutch initial public offering was announced. It raised $ 7 million before the hoax was revealed. Four years earlier, in 1997, there was a worldwide request for everyone to disconnect from the internet from March 31 to April 2 to enable “five very powerful Japan-built multilingual internet crawling robots (Toshiba ML-2274) located around the world “to clean the internet free of all the” floating debris and debris “that had accumulated, removing it from dead email addresses and inactive ftp, www and gopher sites.
The Bible says: “Like a madman who shoots deadly brandies or arrows, he is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, ‘I was only joking!'” Better to find other ways to have fun or even avoid humor than to laugh at the expense of others. Some people’s self-esteem just can’t afford to take a hit. Or if you must laugh, choose your victim carefully. The Bible warns that you are playing with fire, and fire has a way of getting out of control.