I woke up on Saturday morning to find that my DSL modem was fried. Nothing to do to fix it. I ordered another and it is on its way, but it did not come today. I am on dial up!!! If I had a gun right now, I just might use it.
When I got my first home computer, it had a "top-of-the-line" 1200 baud modem. Life was sweet. There was no WWW back then, but I could access the mainframe at work and bulletin boards.
If the web ever goes down, we are toast. Nut Toast.