Milo Medin - @Home: The Farm Boy Who Gave the World Faster Internet

If you're reading this, chances are you'e connected to the Internet all the time. But that wasn't always the case. In the early days of the Web, people would dial into the Internet using their phone lines, do what they needed to online, and then turn off their connections.

That began to change when internet service providers began offering faster, always-on broadband connections separate from people's phone lines. But those faster connections wouldn't have been able to go much faster until one man figured out how to bring the Internet closer to end users. His name is Milo Medin, and he helped found a company called @Home, which introduced cable Internet to the consumer market.

@Home didn't last long, but the infrastructure Milo developed is still the infrastructure we all rely on today for high speed Internet. Find out how -- and why -- he did it on this episode of Web Masters.

For a complete transcript of the episode, click here.