Fixing up the Sun Prank Museum

On August 03, 2006, I wrote about Sun’s unofficial April Fool’s Day Prank
Museum near the lobby of Menlo Park building 17. This week, my husband
repaired one of the prank artifacts which had become damaged. So, here
are current pictures of the small but historic collection. Plus, some
news stories and links about Sun’s prank history.

Sun Prank Museum Photos

John Repairing 2003 Big Webtone Switch

Poster 2007 Black Box Prank

1990 Scott’s Arrow 1996 Cup

2008 Concrete Hardened Thumper

1996 Coffee Station 2007 Black Box Signs

1993 Sharkstation Marty Hess’ SunPuck

2008 MySQL dolphin prank

2008 Mardi Gras Have You Seen This Ham? Prank

1990 All the Wood Behind 1 Arrow Photo of Scott in His Office

News and Links on Sun Pranks

• 
  Do I Still Have a Job? Friday Mar 28, 2008 entry on Jonathan’s
  Blog
• 
  April 1: When Sun Microsystems has fun
  By Rochelle Garner and Connie Guglielmo Bloomberg News, April 1, 2008,
  International Herald Tribune
• 
  Sun prank takes potshots at CEO proclivities
  April 4, 2007 10:09 AM PDT, Posted by Stephen Shankland,
  c/net News.com NewsBlog
• 
  April Fool’s Pranks At Sun I Have Been Involved With Apr 01, 2007 on
  Dave Edstrom’s Catalyst – Edstrom Photons-Electrons blog
• 
  Sun Microsystems Celebrates 25th Anniversary –
  Sun Pranks From the Past 2005
• 
  EMOTIONS AND STAKES RUN HIGH AT FORMULA SUN ONE GRAND PRIX CHAMPIONSHIP
  SANTA CLARA, CA — March 30, 2001, Sun Press Release

Images Copyright 2008 by Katy Dickinson