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[-] grue@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Is Oct 1 the Japanese equivalent of April Fools Day or something?

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago

Google Japan makes a neat-but-useless keyboard every October 1st.

https://hackaday.com/2023/10/07/hats-off-to-another-weird-keyboard-from-google-japan/

There's a super long one, one that's a cup, one that's a hat, and one that's a spoon.

Probably more that I'm not remembering.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I read that it's a yearly thing. My question though, is why Oct 1?

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

10/1 to celebrate the 101 key keyboard apparently? That’s what the linked article mentioned.

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's in the article I linked.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wtf, I only saw the long one before. Thanks for sharing!

Edit: omg, the video! They even show the long keyboard in on scene. And an anime hommage with a guy running with a toast in his mouth. Hilarious.

[-] interurbain1er@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it dates back to 1949. Shortly after the sino-japanese war on the 1st of October 1949 the CCP announced the creation of the People's republic of china.

The Japanese were all like, LOL, that's our empire why do you say it's a country and it became tradition to make outlandish jokes on the 1st of October. So to this day when the PRC celebrate their national day Japan celebrate jokes day (冗談の日).

Also I made that shit up.

this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2024
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