Okay, I admit, when it comes to technology, I’ve often found myself behind the times. It’s been that way since I was a child; I’m confident I inherited it from my father. Growing up, our neighbors, the Walden family, had been enjoying their CD player for six months before my father finally broke down and bought us a stereo with a cassette player. And while Billy Walden and his friends were busy setting high scores on the latest Atari video game, I was still competing with my brother to set high scores on our pinball machine. Right on through high school, it went, and as Billy and his sister were doing their book reports on the family computer, I found myself sitting in front of a 30-year-old manual typewriter.

Cell phones, cable and satellite television, the Internet, DVD and Blue Ray players, Laptop Computers, I-Pods, and I-Phones—my adult years saw an exponential increase in technology and technological devices. I was overwhelmed and found it impossible to keep up. I lived in a technological time warp—often running five, ten, even twenty years behind. Soon, with memories of Y2K and the 1990s fading rapidly, I woke to discover I was still living without cable television, a cell phone, or a home computer, and found myself floating aimlessly in an ocean of technology without a life raft.

Luckily, just as I felt myself starting to sink, my wife was there to reel me in. She started me on the path to the 21st Century slowly; she bought me a cell phone; she taught me how to use the Internet; she reminded me repeatedly that you don’t need to rewind a DVD when you’re finished with it. Valuable lessons, for sure. But it was just two weeks ago, when we upgraded to Hughes Net satellite internet, that I finally embraced the 21st Century in all its technological glory!

With Hughes Net satellite internet, our computer is the envy of the neighborhood. While our neighbors are wasting time waiting for a dial up connection, Hughesnet uses the latest two-way broadband satellite technology, providing a super fast Internet connection that is always on.

Today, with a little help from Hughes Net, instead of being behind the technological curve, I am leading the pack. Get Hughes Net satellite internet today and embrace the 21st Century.