To be fair, most internet connections don’t require climbing Icelandic volcanoes.
The idea that satellites would be involved goes back to at least the 1960s. In 1964 David Sarnoff (head of RCA) predicted: “The computer will become the hub of a vast network of remote data stations and information banks feeding into the machine at a transmission rate of a billion or more bits of information a second. Laser channels will vastly increase both data capacity and the speeds with which it will be transmitted. Eventually, a global communications network handling voice, data and facsimile will instantly link man to machine–or machine to machine–by land, air, underwater, and space circuits. [The computer] will affect man’s ways of thinking, his means of education, his relationship to his physical and social environment, and it will alter his ways of living… [Before the end of this century, these forces] will coalesce into what unquestionably will become the greatest adventure of the human mind.”
relevant news story, spacex launching more satellites for it’s network: