Good call, but sometimes even I have trouble remembering that time. Pre-cell phone is so hard to imagine. I remember when answering machines were a new phenomenon... barely.
I edited in some more stuff that will probably blow my kids mind in my comment. My family was always slow to adopt new technology. I didn't have a computer growing up, we were the last family around to get color TV or an answering machine. I only got a cell phone in the last 4 years. My grandparents grew up without indoor plumbing, central heat and electricity. The changes in their lifetime were breathtaking and it I'd say the changes in our lifetime have been breathtaking (yikes, we're only about halfway through it!) I marvel at the internet all the time. The combination of cell phones and mobile computing are amazing. If the only thing we got from the internet was Wikipedia the world would still be changed forever but it's so much more than that.