WOW!! free wireless internet!

[tassie]

http://www.google.com/tisp/press.html

Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service

"Dark porcelain" project offers self-installed plumbing-based Internet access

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users' plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.
"We've got that whole organizing-the-world's-information thing more or less under control," said Google Co-founder and President Larry Page, a longtime supporter of so-called "dark porcelain" research and development. "What's interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you - not to mention from you."
For years, data carriers have confronted the "last hundred yards" problem for delivering data from local networks into individual homes. Now Google has successfully devised a "last hundred smelly yards" solution that takes advantage of preexisting plumbing and sewage systems and their related hydraulic data-transmission capabilities. "There's actually a thriving little underground community that's been studying this exact solution for a long time," says Page. "And today our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the sewers, up out of your toilet and - splat - right onto your PC."
Users who sign up online for the TiSP system will receive a full home self-installation kit, which includes a spindle of fiber-optic cable, a TiSP wireless router, installation CD and setup guide. Home installation is a simple matter of GFlushing™ the fiber-optic cable down to the nearest TiSP Access Node, then plugging the other end into the network port of your Google-provided TiSP wireless router. Within sixty minutes, the Access Node's crack team of Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) should have your internet connection up and running.
"I couldn't be more excited about, and am only slightly grossed out by, this remarkable new product," said Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Search Products and User Experience. "I firmly believe TiSP will be a breakthrough product, particularly for those users who, like Larry himself, do much of their best thinking in the bathroom."
Interested consumers, contractually obligated partners and deeply skeptical and quietly competitive backbiters can learn more about TiSP at http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html.

[sir clinksalot]

Har ... Har ... Har ...

I think they "released" their press-release a day too early.

[tassie]

this is how it works!

http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html

[DarthDucky]

It's the first already in Australia isn't it?

[DarthDucky]

Why is TiSP in beta?
When things go wrong with TiSP, they go very, very wrong. Let's leave it at that.

[penguinsoda]

Originally Posted by DarthDucky

It's the first already in Australia isn't it?

Yes it is! See, Tassie's giving us a sneek peek and the newest technology!! Ohhhh thanks so much Tassie!!

[PretzelSouls]

Oooo that's really awesome!

[snorkeld]

this was from last year...check the date-MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 - Google Inc.

[Adelade]

yes but people are still falling for it...

[RonNYC]

Originally Posted by sir clinksalot

Har ... Har ... Har ...

I think they "released" their press-release a day too early.

Nope. Crazy little thing called the International Date Line.

The Americas are always the last to enjoy the current day.


Funny stuff Tassie. I'd wonder who'd be foolish enough to actually believe it....

[tassie]

Originally Posted by RonNYC

Nope. Crazy little thing called the International Date Line.

The Americas are always the last to enjoy the current day.


Funny stuff Tassie. I'd wonder who'd be foolish enough to actually believe it....

I posted this a couple of years ago and sooooo many people believed it....it was SOOOO funny!!

VATICAN CITY, APRIL 1 -- Oprah Winfrey has been declared the fourth person of the Trinity, according to an astonishing new theological agreement hammered out by the world's major Christian denominations. Along with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the popular talk show host will be recognized as one person in the sacred and indivisible unity of the Godhead--or Quadhead, as the updated Trinity will now be called.

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/143/story_14315_1.html

[RonNYC]

I don't doubt it though. With the way some people treat her with such reverence here in the States I'm not surprised.

Personally, I think her charitable works are quite noble but I can't stand watching her show. Many years ago she was a great talk show host, but now she comes across as completely phony in her intent.

[aimster]

I remember seeing this last year.

[NeverNeverland]

Bleh, April Fools day.

[lazyboy97O]

I still crack up whenever I se the installation picture. I love the Google technician wearing the mask and snorkel with "PHD" on his lab coat.