You fought a good battle sir, as you were one of the few who actually held to their belief that this was fake.

Yeah well done to everyone who did, it was a really well done trick. Who's the php wizz?

I kept throwing out "proof" that is was real. Good times.

It would have been better if it went on for longer than one day, to "prove" to those who thought it was fake that it wasn't.

Kinda takes the point out of April Fool's.

Bah. The best jokes go on for days.

Ahahahaha. I was almost fooled. Then I saw unwoundpath's post and then actually checked... It was true. Then I was absolutely certain that it was a joke. But good job. I was very very close to believing that you would actually make us pay for more stuff.

Seriously, I wasn't kidding when I said he was barking up the wrong tree. Running the following PHP code on a PHP-enabled Apache2 server:

Yields a page with "source code"

Trying to figure out how we did it by looking at the "source code" of the pages would be fruitless.

It did give some people second thoughts though.

Yeah you can't look at php source without ftp access.

Namely me. And maybe some other people out there in the world. Or in some strange alien planet that has internet connection... The aliens on that planet who have internet connection and read the Data Realms forums.

Well I was genuinely entertained, and I liked the extra mix of newbies for the touch of realism. Good show!

You calling me a newbie? That hurts my feelings man.

you guys seriously had me going
holy s***
i was honestly about to back out of the forums.
YAY CC HASNT DROPPED TO BEGGING FOR MONEYZ YET

I wouldn't let facts get to you too much. Eight months isn't much compared to some of these guys, and "new" is relative.


You stick to that optimism!