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Did you click on the Tisp Beta on your Google homepage?

Google Tisp Beta image
For a moment there, I thought this was real about Google offering a free wireless beta test. Than it looked all weird, as in the technology uses the plumbing system and one have to place the cable into the toilet bowl.

Tisp-Installation-01.GIF

Tisp-Installation-02.GIF

Tisp-Installation-03.GIF

Source: Google Tisp Installation Page
I was thinking that’s weird wouldnt that cable cause a choke within our plumbing system when we use the toilets to dispose of our waste. Then it hit me, that it’s the 1st of April so it must be an April’s fool joke.

Here’s the confirmation of the joke.

Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server. There are so many reasons that this might have happened we can scarcely bring ourselves to type them all out. You might have typed the URL incorrectly, for instance. Or (less likely but certainly plausible) we might have coded the URL incorrectly. Or (far less plausible, but theoretically possible, depending on which ill-defined Grand Unifying Theory of physics one subscribes to), some random fluctuation in the space-time continuum might have produced a shatteringly brief but nonetheless real electromagnetic discombobulation which caused this error page to appear. Or (and truth be told, this is by far the most likely scenario) you might have reached a page that we meant to create but didn’t get around to it, since this year’s April Fool’s joke got hacked together at the last minute, more or less the same way this one did. And this one. And this one, and this one, and this one

Source: Google Tisp 404 Page

This is a nice geek joke that wired’s blog should add to their blog entry. I thought Google found a way to provide free wireless using existing technologies haha…. Good one guys.

There’s even a FAQ for this joke. Find out more – Tisp FAQ , Google Tisp Installation Page

I also did a Google search term for Tisp and found these sites – The Infrastructure Security Partnership

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We're pretty sure that you have stumbled upon a nasty piece of work at various toilets, be it at convention shows or other public places. Well, if there are.