Just a thought. The idea of a power grid Internet is not dead. In fact, it just might be coming into being right now.

Power grid Internet is simply using the power grid to transmit the Internet. Google "power grid Internet." Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-line_communication and http://illumin.usc.edu/printer/26/broadband-over-power-lines/.

I, personally, was involved in the late '90s with a company that was setting people up with methods to run much of their home - coffee machines, alarm clocks, central computing from base nodes connected to in-home "kiosks" - all through the central wiring in the home. So, it isn't a big jump to the idea of using the power grid for Internet communications. In fact, the only thing standing in the way of it is the communication "jumps" that are necessary to bypass the power grid transformers.

I expect that high-frequency carrier waves could be generated that would use the current power grid "pulse" to heterodyne a second wave with the secondary windings of the transformers, all of this being read by a computer to generate a second group of waves that matched the frequency of the secondary windings.

Multiplied, this would be able to carry any number of signals across any number of transformers so that there would be the capability to transmit Internet signals anywhere the power grid exists.

Personally, I think that this whole thing has been worked out long ago, and the only reason that we don't see it in action is that the "powers that be" don't want to lose the control that they have via the Internet Service Providers. After all, consider TOR over a power grid Internet. The anonymity could be complete.