You might as well refer to April 1 as National Attention Hacking Day.

It’s the day tech companies, food chains and retail brands unite in pissing off their customers with egregious made-up products and services in a bid to get their logos in front of as many eyeballs as possible.

During its infancy, Technical.ly also pulled a fast one or two on readers, with the dual purpose of drawing attention on a fun day for the internet and dabbling in low-key tech scene satire that, in retrospective, was pretty spot-on.

In 2011, we got the comments section on fire for announcing to the world that Technical.ly Philly would be relocating to the Big Apple, rebranding as Technical.ly New York in a bid to get some dough from Rupert Murdoch.

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