Google愚人節(jié)惡搞：“通過廁所上網”
April Fool jokester Google offer wireless access
[ 2007-04-02 17:22 ]
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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.
"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."
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上周日，Google 在其網站上發(fā)布了一條愚人節(jié)惡搞新聞，自稱開發(fā)了一種能通過廁所上網的最新上網方式。
據地處加利福尼亞州山景城的Google公司介紹，這個名為“黑陶瓷”的項目主要是通過計算機用戶家里的管道上網。
Google公司在其網站上宣傳的這一“廁所互聯(lián)網服務”是“一項可自行安裝、支持廣告、完全免費的在線服務；用戶的計算機只要能無線上網，家中的廁所只要與當地的下水道系統(tǒng)相通即可連通。”
Google在這條新聞中還援引公司的創(chuàng)建人之一兼總裁拉里·佩奇說：“目前這一‘可連通世界’的項目已基本在我們的掌控之中。”
這則惡搞新聞稱，“有意思的是，接受一條信息的模式就有很多種，更不用說發(fā)布信息。”
Google公司大贊這項具有突破性的技術“充分利用了現有的管道和下水道系統(tǒng)以及相關的液壓數據傳輸能力。”
佩奇說：“實際上，一個蓬勃發(fā)展的小型地下組織對此已經研究很久了。”
“如今，我們的廁所ISP團隊對于能領先于這一領域感到很高興，實現了個人電腦與廁所中下水道的連接。”
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Vocabulary:
sewage system :下水道系統(tǒng)
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