{"id":1165,"date":"2003-05-05T05:22:11","date_gmt":"2003-05-05T19:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/05\/skip-skip-skip-to-iloo\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T08:06:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T16:06:45","slug":"skip-skip-skip-to-iloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/05\/skip-skip-skip-to-iloo\/","title":{"rendered":"Skip, skip, skip to iLoo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know, for all the times I&#8217;ve been tempted to toss Windows where it belongs &#8212; into the toilet &#8212; I never figured that Microsoft itself would feel the same way! It appears I was wrong, however &#8212; at least, according to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/uk\/press\/content\/presscentre\/releases\/2003\/05\/PR03049.asp\" title=\"MSN launches world's first 'Internet Loo'\">MS UK press release<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The UK&#8217;s most popular website msn.co.uk is creating the world&#8217;s first &#8216;Internet Loo&#8217;. The iLoo will be mobile and is part of MSN&#8217;s mission to allow instant logging on &#8216;anytime and any place&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>  In time for the summer festival season, MSN is in the process of converting a portable loo to create a unique experience for surfers looking for an alternative to the bog-standard festival loo experience. Users will be able to sit down, undock a wireless keyboard and conveniently access the first ever WWW.C.<\/p>\n<p>  A plasma screen will be located directly in front of them which can be adjusted to a desired height level. MSN is also in talks with toilet paper manufacturers to produce special web paper for those in need of URL inspiration.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um&#8230;yeah. The only problem with a story like this is that all the really good jokes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/article\/2003\/05\/02.11.shtml\" title=\"Microsoft's MSN's business in the toilet\">are<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/comments.php?category=main&amp;id=10736\" title=\"Microsoft's gone potty\">already<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleturns.com\/scene\/?id=3930\" title=\"Entirely Too Appropriate\">taken<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In time for the summer festival season, MSN is in the process of converting a  portable loo to create a unique experience for surfers looking for an alternative to the bog-standard festival loo experience. Users will be able to sit down, undock a wireless keyboard and conveniently access the first ever WWW.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}