I only started using it in the early to mid-80s myself, but yeah its kinda getting old... a bit like me, as a matter of fact ;)

We need to go back to these basics, considering how the big corps are tightening their noose around our neck.

I would love to see a lot of young people agree with you, but it's already so late I'm not even sure it's still possible to massively move back to a pre corporate-owned tech. People have been taught to expect convenience above anything else... it will be hard work to change that... which doesn't go along very well with the idea of convenience.