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April Fools' Day On The Web (aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com) is a curated archive of April Fools' Day jokes and pranks published by websites and social media accounts, covering 2026 back to 2004. It exists because most pranks are taken down shortly after April 1st — the site screenshots each submitted joke so the original page doesn't have to stay live for the joke to be remembered. It's useful if you want to browse this year's pranks, look up a specific company's past jokes, or check what the internet did for April Fools' in a given year.
What the site offers
The homepage is organized into four sections, each serving a different browsing need:
| Section | What it contains | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Featured jokes of 2026 | Hand-picked highlights with a screenshot link and a rating | A quick tour of the year's most notable pranks |
| Top 20 highest rated jokes of 2026 | Ranked list with submission timestamps and scores | Finding the community favorites |
| All 2026 jokes | The full list for the current year | Browsing everything, including smaller pranks |
| The archive | Jokes going back to 2004 | Researching a company's prank history or a specific year |
There's also a "Surprise me" option (labeled with a die icon) for random discovery, and a submission form for adding a 2026 joke.
How the archive works
The core mechanism is screenshot preservation. When someone submits a prank, the site captures a screenshot at that moment. This matters because April Fools' pages are typically temporary — a company swaps its homepage for a day, then restores it. Without a capture, the joke effectively disappears from the web.
Each entry in the featured and top-rated lists follows the same pattern: the source (a website or social account), a one-line description of the prank, a rating, and a link to the screenshot. For example, the 2026 featured list includes:
- @PizzaHutCanada on X — Canadian locations selling a limited-time "Hot Dog Stuffed Crust Pizza" (rated 8)
- minecraft.wiki — an AI chatbot addition that "isn't what it seems" (rated 10)
- formidable.care — a "physical CAPTCHA" called HealthCAPTCHA that requires users to do a squat (rated 9)
- weather.com — "Retrocast," bringing back 90s-style broadcast graphics with live data (rated 12)
- xkcd.com — new reading modes (lighter mode, dark mode, space opera mode, hacker mode, screensaver mode) accessible from a menu below the comic (rated 10)
The top-20 list adds submission timestamps and scores, so you can see which jokes were submitted earliest and which drew the most votes. The 2026 leader was pc.net's "Super Ultrabox 2600" (score 39), followed by undertaleforfree.com's fake Undertale release (34) and Bulbapedia rebranding itself as "Pokopedia" (24).
When to use it — and what to expect
Use the site when you want to:
- Catch up on a year's pranks without hunting through social feeds — start with Featured, then Top 20.
- Verify a half-remembered joke — search the archive by year or company name.
- See the original page as it looked — the screenshot links are the point; the live prank page is usually gone.
Two practical caveats: ratings and rankings reflect submissions and votes from site visitors, not an editorial standard, so treat the scores as a popularity signal rather than a quality judgment. And because entries depend on user submissions, coverage of any given year is broad but not guaranteed to be exhaustive — a prank nobody submitted may simply be missing.
If you have a 2026 joke to add, the submission form on the homepage is the entry point; the site captures the screenshot at submission time, so submit while the prank page is still live.