Before the Internet (2017)

Before the Internet, you would just sit in an armchair with a book open on your lap, staring into space or staring at a decorative broom on the wall—kind of shifting back and forth between those two modes of being. Before the Internet, you’d have yawning summer afternoons when you’d flop down on one couch, then flop down on another, then decide to craft a fake F.B.I. card. Before the Internet, if you were in need of some facts you might actually decide to consult an old person, like the one living in your finished basement.

Source: www.newyorker.com