Life with the Internet

You know, someone the other day posted something with regards to SOPA, and in it they asked the question "what would life be like without the internet?" That got me thinking a bit, mostly about how lucky we really are to have the internet in the first place. If we put it into perspective, the internet still is quite a new phenomenon. Our generation grew up with the internet, so it seems like a natural part of life that we take for granted, but it's not. We're the first generation in the world to grow up with the internet as a regular part of our lives. The generation before us at best thought that the old DOS systems were awesome when they were young (which they were, I guess). Also, the internet is still very much a first-world phenomenon. Sure, it exists in just about every country now, but a common person having a computer with internet access in their home is still a thing that is common only in our comfy, industrialized, well-developed first world countries, like the US. I served an LDS mission in Ecuador(South America), and while they did have internet there, only well-off people had internet in their homes. Everyone else had to go to these internet cafe-type places and pay to use their computers and internet. I guess my point is that we really are pretty lucky to have the amazing technology and resource of the internet so easily accessible, and for such little cost to ourselves. It's so easy to take it for granted. I imagine that if anything were to happen to the internet, it would be quite a hard adjustment for most all of us.