The fall of the old Internet was when AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy got peering rights and Classmates.com started up.
That said, I do most of my shopping online now and have likely saved years of my life due to not having to hunt through stores only to find they could “order it in” for me.
And I’ve never used TicketMaster since they went online, and don’t feel like I’m missing anything. I prefer smaller venues.