CD, the TV didn't come into common household use until after WW2. It is purely a thing of the last 65 years.
And I would point out to you that the very beginnings of the Internet didn't come into being until DARPANET was born some time in the late 1960's.
I'm on the Net all day; I follow the news online.
I know you were speaking rhetorically, but I'm not living in the 17th century, and I'm not a Luddite :)