Here is a site as useless as nice and also nostalgic that can be used just to make some innocent joke or to amaze some friends. Since Sunday is April Fool's Day, a really simple one could be this web page that simulates and allows you to see the exact reproduction of the shutdown procedure of all the computers in history.
The site is RestartPage.com, truly original for its realization which, even if, in fact, it serves no purpose, it must be visited at least once, especially by geeks and nerds from all over Italy.
It is a single web page that contains several boxes: they are the real screens used by operating systems of today and of the past, to turn off the computer.
They are not just static images to look at, you can in fact press, on each of them, the Shutdowno key and the Restart key to see the real animation of the computer shutdown.
The Restart page serves no purpose, it's just a collection of animated images.
The main purpose is that of the museum, a site where it is possible, for older computer scientists, to review and retry the shutdown and startup screens of the computers of the past.
Among the various buttons are those of Windows 95, old Mac and IBM computers for a total of 17 different boxes.
Then try to put the browser in full screen (by pressing the F11 key), press the Cancel key on all the boxes, drag the treble downwards until there is only one of your choice.
Then press the Restart button on one of the boxes and the computer will really seem to shut down and restart.
One could therefore, for example, deceive a friend by saying that he has an 80s Mac or an obviously old unknown system.
Certainly the RestartPage is more than anything else interesting and fun rather than playful, therefore, with the occasion (not accidental), I remember that, if you want to make real jokes on the computers of friends, you can read these three posts:
Funny computer jokes on pc to scare friends and work colleagues
10+ April fish pranks from Windows and annoying tricks to drive you crazy
Fake Virus and fake Windows errors for making jokes on computers
