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Rick Aristotle Munarriz from the Motley Fool wrote this article covering the great Google April Fool’s prank. It’s time to flush it all down the toilet.

It was an April Fool’s Day joke so nice, you had to flush it twice. Google cut loose with another annual yesterday. Visitors to the Google home page were pitched the promise of “FREE breakthrough broadband with Google TiSP (BETA).”

Following the link introduced readers to the free — yet very fake — in-home WiFi service. Consumers would flush a spindle of fiber optic cable down their toilets, hooking the other end to a wireless router.

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I have to admit, this guy Michael Breckenridge has a pretty good sense of humor. He’s taken this Google TiSP idea one step further and added some Crisco to his Cisco router.

Gotta love the new logo which is apparently “The official logo of the Google TiSP wireless broadband internet service” according to Michael’s website.

Here’s a list of his steps that gives you twice the speed on Google TiSP using your existing wireless router!

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If you didn’t notice, Google launched a new fictitious product called “Google TiSP” on April 1st, 2007. When I first came across it I thought the offer was real (until I saw the steps and pictures). This is a pretty hilarious offering of high speed internet access which requires you to flush the internet cable down the toilet to activate wireless networking within your house. According to their website,

Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.

Now I’ve heard of some strange offerings but this one takes the cake. It’s a very elaborate instruction guide, FAQ, and even a press release introducing the service. I wonder how many people actually tried to order this kit before realizing it was an April Fools prank by Google.

Comment below if you have any stories….I’d love to hear some!

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