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Google 'Toilet ISP' Gag Not Without Precedent

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Hibachi House (Marketed at Costco) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.hibachihouse.com/

    These little people like to have you microwave your food.
    NO instructions for conventional cooking.
    MSG in the soy sauce.

    Have at it and TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK!!!

  2. Re:What? by Ayal.Rosenthal · · 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.

    --
    Social liberal, fiscal conservative, always sarcastic.
  3. mo\d do3n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Usenet is roughly members are The BSD license, working on various the reaper BSD's maggot, vomit, shit

  4. Re:Ha ha by Nirvelli · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aww, why the hate?
    I laughed.