> how things worked in the olden-days, before the Internet.

That's exactly the problem in Cuba. It feels like a time capsule from the 80's. It is not only about PCs and networking. We are talking about people that have to craft their own spare parts for cars from 50s-60s.

They have a submarine cable from Venezuela that gives them networking but giving the sad state of Internet connection in Venezuela I guess that is not of much help anyway.