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Radio Russia reported that the Russian parliament was considering a proposal to declare April 1st a public holiday: "Telephone jokes, absurd tasks for managers, warnings that the power, light or heat is to be cut off and other practical jokes are much more extravagant then than on other days. As a result, expert analysis shows, industrial efficiency in Russia falls," the report explained. By declaring the day a national holiday, efficiency would be maintained.

A press release was issued over Business Wire announcing Webnode, a new company that had recently been granted a government contract to regulate ownership of "nodes" on the Next Generation Internet (NGI). Each of these nodes (there were said to be over 50 million of them) represented a route that data could travel over the NGI. The company was licensed to sell each node for $100. Nodes would increase in value depending on how much traffic they routed. Owners would also receive usage fees for the data that flowed across their section of the internet. However, only individuals could own nodes, and no person could own more than 1,000 nodes. This limit was supposedly made in order to avoid monopolization of the internet by large corporations. Although Webnode was not yet a publicly trade company, the press release declared that shares in the company could be reserved for later purchase, although no payment would currently be accepted. Because the Next Generation Internet is a real government project, many were led to believe that Webnode was also real. Business Wire did not find the prank amusing. It sued the creators of the press release.

Western Union chose April 1, 1950 to reintroduce their singing telegram service, which they had suspended during the war. But instead of personally delivered messages, "the messages were sung by women operators at the company's switchboards." [Chicago Daily Tribune, Apr 2, 1950.]