"we used to live in cardboard box in the middle of road. They don't know their born today." Monty Python.
I wonder if it depends on who and which generation... my thirty-ish son likes technology and history and so he likes looking into how things were in the past and how they are now.
Technology has made huge leaps. My first modem was Prism V23 1200/75 bps device that I used for accessing Prestel in about 1984. I also had a V21 300 bps acoustic coupler. At work for BT I saw 300 bps modems in grey boxes that we were providing to customers.
1995 I had a 9600 bps modem PC card for my laptop.
I had a US Robotics modem 56kbps in the early 2000s.
I could do e-mail on that, but the WWW would not have worked on it.
ADSL made watching and streaming content possible, but not possible to upload documents when working from home on 0.5Mbps uplink speed.
VDSL made a big difference to me trying to work from home on an 80/20 Mbps package.
Cheers,
Tony