Digging in the Cache is a series where we go back in time to look at fun tidbits of Internet and computer history. What could be more fun than luring your friends to go to a website that’s completely different than what they expect to find?  With the rise of URL shorteners which can easily hide the address of the linked page, sending people to a site that they don’t expect is fairly easy.  In 2007-2008, it was a fad to trick people into visiting a page with a music video of Rick Astley singing his 1987 song “Never Gonna Give You Up”.  The person who was tricked into viewing the video was “rickrolled“. Since the video of Astley was safe for work, it was more appropriate than many Internet pranks to spread throughout the workplace. [Read more...]