Wow! This blows my mind. We are on a plane heading for a sailing vacation in Tahiti, hundreds of miles from anything. I just paid a mere five bucks for an hour of internet to message our host. Surprisingly, the connection is extremely fast. I had no idea that this level of service was available. Admittedly, they won’t let you stream videos etc but this works extremely well for web surfing, messaging, photo downloading, etc).
"Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird. -- Alan Watts