> Outside of keeping connected with people (Signal, Whatsapp, etc), there really is no reason to use the internet except to gain knowledge (isn't that why the internet was invented in the first place? web 1.0).

Except online banking, using mandatory national digital id services, paying for stuff, applying for a job and you know a million other thinga that are completely digital.

> I don't mean time travel, I mean books. In particular, books that are pre-2010s, the earlier the better in most subjects.

Ok now I'm pretty sure this entire rant is generated by an AI using a weird prompt because there is no way that ChatGPT would output such a poorly constructed argumentet.