It's funny, the internet was not really common until quite a bit after highschool for me. But I honestly don't really remember what people did for many common tasks before the internet. It's like that entire part of my memory was wiped clean by simple, quick and convenient access to global communication and LOLcats.
Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.