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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. New item. by FMota91 · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. Attention Linux Clickarounds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah i'm talking to you. The wannabe computer programmer who thinks they are good at computers because they can click around in Gnome enough times and find the reboot button and 'fix' an inherently flawed POSIX system. You think you're cool because you can pirate GIMP and Inkscape but not know anything about it, get Open Office Beta for free but have the literacy of Richard Stallman when writing a communist newsletter, and get a copy of AVG Antivirus working through Wine because your inherently flawed system is useless without sudo privileges. Get a clue, you are not smart, you are just a commmunist sheep for a license that will bury you if you ever tried to write any software that remotely allowed you to profit. You are a clickaround and all you know if your ugly penguin existence that is Linux.

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    sudo mount -t smbfs -o uid=ltorvalds,username="Microsoft.owns.us\Steven Ballmer",password="squirtchairs" //development/legacy ~/microsoftPiratedShare/code

    cat ~/microsoftPiratedshare/Windows95Beta/i286/Windows .com > vmlinuz-2.6.20-4-generic

  3. Ha ha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The april fool joke is on you. The real reason is that you live in Indy.

  4. Yuo FaiL It by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    which don't use the ev3ryday...Redefine guys are usually