Head to YouTube after 4AM local time and you'll notice that it looks a little old fashioned ?�and not in a 1999 blinking construction sign sort of way. YouTube is reverting back to what it would have looked like had it been around in 1911, complete with grainy, sepia video footage, no audio tracks (save for piano accompaniment), and title cards in place of the site's normal comments. Yes, it's time for April Fools, and the world's largest video portal is ringing it in once with some video player trickery ? a tradition it started in 2008 after RickRolling all of its users. YouTube has accompanied the gag with a blog post from President Taft, and it's also put together some 1911-ified memes, featuring the ancestors of Annoying Orange and a certain musically-inclined feline. Even some of the ads are old fashioned.
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