You can get back to this easily if you need to.

You can get back to this easily if you need to. Turn off your modem, and don't use a smart phone. Overall I think this is a "First World Problem".

But it's also wrong. The Internet started not with TCP/IP in the 90s, but with the first telegraph. It just took time to get up to the level we see now.
http://qz.com/252456/what-it-feels-like-to-be-the-last-generation-to-remember-life-before-the-internet/