The traditional deluge of April Fool’s pranks have come and gone, some leaving more of an influential mark than others, but who – if anyone – emerged as the biggest culprits in attempting to pull the world’s perception-blurring wool down over its perennially gullible eyes?
You might be surprised to learn that Google Inc. tops the list with an online prank that plumbed the very depths of believability by offering consumers cost-free high-speed Internet access via… wait for it… the cold comfort of their lavatory systems. Seriously.
Further compounding the spiralling lack of credibility invested in the Internet by users, Google’s “Dark Porcelain” stunt amusingly (and perhaps acidly) claimed that its groundbreaking “Toilet Internet Service Provider” (
http://www.google.com/tisp/) functioned perfectly with Microsoft’s newly released Windows Vista operating system (OS), though not, it was keen to point out, with “septic tanks”.
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