The History of April Fools @ SD...Jump In The Wayback Machine!

I've been lurking since 2005. Thought that was a long time. Used the Celery Deals logo from last April Fools as my avatar which got me wondering:

Were there any other April Fools jokes from prior years on SD?

So I jumped on one of my fav sites, The Wayback Machine, and typed in SD. Wait til you see what this place USED to look like

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First day archived March 1, 2000 [archive.org] That is some AWESOME css work...am I right?....right?....
April Fools...NO FORUMS! and WTF is "Content is copyrighted by J.T.V.Trac."?

April Fools, 2001 [archive.org] Can't find any Fool's jokes here but that baby blue background is pretty scary...

April 2, 2002 [archive.org] (I love the old style "Hot Tip: Press Ctrl-D to Bookmark this Site!")
Remember when computers were expensive as hell? How about this "Hot Deal:" Dell P3 1.0GHz Inspiron Laptop for $754 after $100 MIR

A new layout in April 2005 [archive.org] and banner
Notables: Most users ever online was 3393, 03-01-2005 at 09:50 AM. Threads: 81,779, Posts: 1,031,440, Members: 42,194

April 2007, we get another new logo and the left sided column bites the dust. [archive.org].
Who can forget the Google TiSP [155.132]for this April Fools? or SlickWallet vs FatDeals [155.132]

April 2008 [archive.org] brings us "New Features Announcement: Never miss a deal again with Deal Alerts + Ignore threads you're not interested in"

...and last but certainly not least...

CeleryDeals.net from April Fools 2009 [aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com] where EVERYONE [155.132]is an Administrator!
Talk about growth: Threads: 721,864, Posts: 10,507,054, Members: 349,914 !!!

Can't wait for April Fools 2010!

Found a history on the SD logos. and the current masterpiece. [userlogos.org]

Nice

There was also one year...I guess 2008? Where they rickrolled everyone. All our avatars were Rick Astley and when you clicked on things it frequently took you to a rickroll.

Quote from Autumn : Nice There was also one year...I guess 2008? Where they rickrolled everyone. All our avatars were Rick Astley and when you clicked on things it frequently took you to a rickroll.

What year was it when they made you a mod?

Quote from ray nagin : what year was it when they made you a mod?

2007 .

Quote from Autumn : 2007 .

that must have been a nice 40th birthday present

Can't wait

Quote from Nihilariat : that must have been a nice 40th birthday present

Are you turning into Max now?

Quote from Nihilariat : that must have been a nice 60th birthday present

ftfy.

That is some fine work there OP. Nice research project. Srsly!

Quote from Ray Nagin : What year was it when they made you a mod?

2008, if you posted anything, your titled changed to Administrator.

Wow it's been almost 4 years since I started slickdealing...

Quote from Autumn : Nice There was also one year...I guess 2008? Where they rickrolled everyone. All our avatars were Rick Astley and when you clicked on things it frequently took you to a rickroll.

And Texazz was also banned that year.

Oh crap, we completely forgot about April Fools this year.

Quote from SP33DFR34K : Oh crap, we completely forgot about April Fools this year.

that was going to be their April Fool's joke.