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Powerline is sort of like that. Devices act like an L2 transparent proxies over electrical wiring.




Fun fact: large transmission lines use power line carrier communications for things like remedial action schemes and other system protection functionality (e.g. protective relay trip signals). The carrier can be a few hundred kV, so it tends to be outside the comfort zone of most casual experimenters.



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