I grew up pre-Internet and I don't regret not having had access to it when growing up at all. The schools I went to had good libraries as did the town. I'm no

I grew up pre-Internet and I don't regret not having had access to it when growing up at all. The schools I went to had good libraries as did the town. I'm not sure I would have got more out of the Internet than I did out of books; I'm also not saying that I wouldn't, just that it is not a foregone conclusion that having access to a firehose is necessarily a better way to slake ones thirst than from a less dramatic tap. I had no trouble finding textbooks, I could ask my high school teachers, my university tutor, my friends, classmates, and so on for help. As for the esoteric subjects, well they are esoteric precisely because not many people are interested in them so I don't think I lost out there either. The amount of information available to me in the late sixties and seventies was already many orders of magnitude more than any one person could consume.