About 13 years ago the internet was not as developed as it is today, and there were a lot of myths about it. I remember getting an email saying that internet has to be cleaned of all emails and files that were sent to a none existing electronic addresses and are traveling through the internet trying to get somewhere. Those files and emails were “plugging” the internet and had to be deleted. According to the email we all needed to log off the internet. The mail had some nice touch as it explained that Toshiba created powerful robots (it even gave those robots name that included some dashes and number to make it sound real) that will travel through the internet and will delete anything that it will find in its way. If you won’t log off your whole hard disk might be deleted. One of the guys that got this email believed it and got very upset. He sent all of us mail claiming that it isn’t legal and that he recommends that we’ll sue Toshiba in case that something will happen to any of the computers. Someone else answered his mail explaining him that this was April fool’s joke. I liked the answer because at the end of it he warned the guy to keep the computer as far away as possible from any toster:-)

Adi