I'm satisfied with the internet that I pay for, and it's relatively inexpensive compared to everything else in my life, well beyond its relative importance. This doesn't even register on the list of things I worry about.
You can look up the CPI: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SEEE03?output_view=d...
Broadly speaking it seems like consumer prices have decreased (CPI suggests ~25%, but that's probably very general). At the same time we've gotten incredibly better internet service compared to 1997 (how do you even account for the monumental jump over that time period).
If the world is ending, we've got it pretty good.