Tuesday, 3 April 2007

TiSP

Google's official April Fools' Day prank. "Toilet Internet Service Provider" (TiSP)
Code-name: "Dark Porcelain"

On Sunday, Google posted a link on the company's home page to a site offering consumers free high-speed wireless Internet through their home plumbing systems with a mock press release quoting Larry Page, a step-by-step online installation manual and a scatological selection of FAQs. Page said "...and today our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the sewers, up out of your toilet and - splat - right into your PC." The TiSP works with Microsoft's Vista but..septic tanks are incompatible with the system's requirements. The service would be offered in 3 speeds: Trickle, The No.2, and Royal Flush.

Source: The Nation: 3 Apr 07; Associated Press

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