Google TISP - Free In Home Wireless Broadband Access

Google is a huge player in almost every field related to the internet, so it has been a foregone conclusion that they'll be a big player in "internet access" at some point. Now, that time is drawing near as the Mountain Valley company has announced Google TiSP.

"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."

This Toilet ISP idea could really take off. For anyone reading this who tends towards being too literal: this was part of an April Fool's joke at Google. It's too bad, too, because cancelling my Time Warner internet could have become a reality.