Google announced a novel way to access the Internet -- via the toilet
-- in an April Fool's Day gag on its website Sunday.
The Mountain View, California-based technology concern introduced its
"Dark Porcelain" project, with Internet access via computer users'
household plumbing.
The "Toilet Internet Service Provider" (TiSP) project highlighted on
Google's webpage 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," the website says, quoting Google co-founder and
president Larry Page.
"What's interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are
for actually getting that information to you -- not to mention from you,"
the mock press release read.
The company hailed the breakthrough technology "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," said Page.
