The satellite was part of the Global Networking Initiative, linking the various national internets back together. It worked fine for a few years, but then it was struck by a meteor, right around the time the nations went back to war, so it was left offline for several years.
Then it came back on again, and began streaming nonsense to the world. Just the power couplings reconnecting, and random fluctuations. The fact that the occasional correct code was part of the nonsense was attributed to the infinite monkeys theorem.
That's why the alien intelligence inhabiting it is now called Shakespeare.
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