Did DOUG predict STARLINK in 1996?

Was watching one of my Avermedia Captures of the Doug episode

DOUG DIRECTS

and I've noticed a little something.

Beebe mentions keeping her personal laptop inside her locker.

A Laptop which suspiciously looks like a 1984 DATA GENERAL/ONE Laptop

During a Blizzard that trapped the kids in school, Beebe decides to use her laptop to connect to the internet.

But DOUG DIRECTS was first broadcast on ABC on November 9 1996,

4 days after BILL CLINTON won that year's U.S Election.

So why does this matter?

Because back in 1996, the only way both a Desktop PC and a Laptop could connect to the internet was through Dial-Up which required an RJ11 phone cable

and a modem

And if the laptop didn’t have built-in RJ11 jack, a PCMCIA modem card.

Even Connie mentions that a phone line was required to access the internet, which would have been impossible for Beebe to do since the blizzard knocked out the Phone Lines.

"Don't you need a phone line to connect to the Internet in 1996?"

But then these words came out of Beebe's mouth:

"My dad bought me my own Satellite."

Cue the satellite with Beebe's silhouette on it.

And for some bizarre reason, despite being a wireless signal,

I can still hear the good-old DIAL UP modem noise in this scene.

"Yes, we're Online!!! Now to shop at AMAZON circa November 1996!!!!"

Yes, AMAZON did exist in 1996!
Just not as big of a company back then compared to now.

Could this be Jim Jinkins' unintentional prediction of either Wi-Fi or Starlink?

It most likely predicted Wi-Fi but the way I see it, This is Beebe Bluff, and because her family’s rich, she could afford to have tech that’s exclusive to her.

So because of having a satellite, that outright predicted Starlink by 23 years.

But then again, the Bluff family is more honest about their products than Elon Musk so who am I to judge.

To be honest, I don't even use Starlink for my internet anyway. 

I use TELUS WI-FI in my home.

So in other words, DOUG actually predicted Wi-Fi about a year before the standard became public in September 21 1997

but a lot of us Computer Users didn't start using Wi-Fi until the mid-2000s when the tech became more widespread as before that, a lot of us either still had 56K Dial-Up or we moved on to Ethernet.

And no, our Ethernet even back in the day is not the same kind of 1.5 megabit Fiber Optic T1 Line that Comic Book Guy had back in 1998.

"Oh please. 

Nowadays, us nerds demand 10 Gigabit Ethernet or Wi-Fi 7 on our Motherboards."

Yeah, I had to use a SIMPSONS Reference because if they could predict the future, then DOUG can predict the future too.

Update as of July 3 2025:

I heard Elon Musk is having some major trouble with the Big Ooompa-Loompa at the WHITE HOUSE.

What's the problem?

Disagreements over a senatorial bill.

Normally, I don't give a crap about what Musk thinks but then again, he shouldn't have danced with the elephant but He did and look what happened!