Presiding over a company with a market value of $143 billion apparently gives Silicon Valley’s most famous billionaires a good sense of humor—and a case of corporate potty mouth.
Senior executives at Google Inc. launched their annual April Fools Day prank Sunday, posting a link on the company’s home page to a site offering consumers free high-speed wireless Internet through their home plumbing systems.
Code-named “Dark Porcelain,” Google said its “Toilet Internet Service Provider” (TiSP) works with Microsoft Corp.’s new Windows Vista operating system. But sorry—septic tanks are incompatible with the system’s requirements.
The gag included a mock press release quoting Google co-founder and president Larry Page, a step-by-step online installation manual, and a scatological selection of Frequently Asked Questions. On some Google sites, the company’s official logo—a multicolored “Google” that changes according to the season and on holidays—substituted a commode for the second “g.”
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I really wish they had taken the joke one step further and set up it where you could actually sign up for the service. Ashamed to say, I would have been one of those people signing up!
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