Google 'Toilet ISP' Gag Not Without Precedent

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 1, 2007 @04:27PM from the oh-the-halcyon-dot-com-days dept.

1sockchuck writes "Yesterday, Google's annual April Fools' joke featured Google TiSP, a free home wireless broadband service that connected via a 'commode-based router' and runs fiber cabling through the sewer system. This is actually not without precedent. Back in the dot-com boom, delivering broadband through sewers was the focus of CityNet Telecom, which raised $375 million in funding from major VC and private equity firms in 2000 and 2001. The company used remote-controlled robots to lay fiber through sewer lines and actually created sewer-based networks in Albuquerque and Indianapolis before merging with Universal Access in 2003."

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Re:What? by Ayal.Rosenthal · 2007-04-01 18:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The problem with using storn sewers is that the Google-ites (Googlians?) might run into Tommy Lee Jones and Harrison Ford, and nobody should wish that on anyone.

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Re:Ha ha by Nirvelli · 2007-04-01 18:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Aww, why the hate?
I laughed.