how did we survive?

right now i am sitting in my front yard on my two acre rental property outside of my teenie house with my laptop. why you ask? because i don't have internet and if i sit out here i pick up someones wireless - which by the way they haven't put a password on!!!! it is killing me because if i need to find some info or figure how to get anywhere i need internet. and if i want that i have to go outside to get it. for some reason it doesn't work in the house but as soon as i step out it does. so here i am. and i wonder how in the crap we survived before internet. beacause if all internet crashed it would be like the great depression or something stupit like that...no Y2K...now that was funny...but that is what it would be like.