Do you remember life before the internet?
From a purely technical standpoint, no. The internet existed in 1983. Most of us just weren’t on it then. Prodigy and America Online started to become a thing when I was a child, and really took off. They kind of hit their pinnacle when I was a teen, and then were gradually replaced by the “search engine period.” Today, obviously everyone is online all the time with smartphones. Basically the internet is now ever present.
I think what this question really is- were you around before people lived their whole lives online? When kids didn’t grow up with smartphones, when you couldn’t look up literally anything in a few seconds, when you called friends instead of texting or messaging, pre-social media, etc. The answer to that question is yes.