| Where did the internet come from? Although not | | | | an internet that is a seemingly endless fountain |
| nearly as loaded a question as some that children | | | | and source of valuable information, entertainment |
| may come up with, it certainly is one that many | | | | and communications potential. From simply linking a |
| people have a hard time answering. The fact that | | | | handful of machines to enabling international |
| few people really know how the internet got its | | | | business and instantaneous communications to |
| origins is surprising, since its invention, and at the | | | | happen without a hitch, this networking system's |
| very least its use was popularized entirely during | | | | capabilities have evolved exponentially. Part of the |
| the lifetimes of many. Today in a world of high | | | | problem, however, is the internet has been slow |
| speed broadband internet from a variety of | | | | to outgrow the use of wires to maintain all |
| sources, Wi-Fi internet, 3G wireless internet and | | | | information connections. This issue has been |
| even the up and coming 4G wireless internet, | | | | extended to the point that there are thick cables |
| many people forget about satellites as a | | | | floating around somewhere in all major oceans |
| broadband source. However, satellite internet | | | | and off all major coasts, providing the |
| broadband is in fact coming full circle to the very | | | | connectivity this international network needs to |
| first internet source: the satellite dish. | | | | function. Instead of spending all that time and |
| In the late 1950s when the Cold War was on, the | | | | money to lay more and more cables and wires, |
| Soviet Union launched the first ever man-made | | | | the world today is saying enough. Instead, they |
| satellite, Sputnik much to the dismay of the | | | | are looking to the skies for fast, reliable satellite |
| United States. Fearing this meant missiles were | | | | internet. |
| not far behind, the Advanced Research Projects | | | | One of the few technology trends spreading from |
| Agency was created by US President Dwight D. | | | | rural and remote areas to urban centers instead |
| Eisenhower in 1958. At this time the room-filling | | | | of vice versa, satellite internet has long been the |
| invention, the computer, was still a slow and bulky | | | | only choice for customers who want or need |
| machine and a mere shadow of the | | | | broadband speeds but live off terrestrial |
| supercomputers that exist today. The internet | | | | broadband grids. Once the spider web of wires |
| definitely did not exist yet, and neither did | | | | stops, so does high speed internet- or at least it |
| computer networking. In an attempt to network | | | | did until now. Today, anyone who wants can |
| a series of four computers, the system | | | | download, cruise the internet and enjoy |
| ARPANET was invented, a system whose basic | | | | broadband speeds instead of being stuck with |
| principles and protocols are still applied to modern | | | | dial-up or no home internet at all! Nearly all internet |
| internet symptoms. | | | | users have at one point relied on dial-up and know |
| Needless to say, over the years these networks | | | | how frustrating it can be. For that very reason |
| grew and merged into what we now know as the | | | | the world is heading back to the internet's catalyst |
| modern internet. It is an internet that is accessible | | | | and harnessing the power of satellite broadband |
| from a variety of sources at super high speeds; | | | | for fast reliable internet anywhere. |