I'm sorry, really I am, but this is a long time coming.
If you feel like the excitement of life is ruined by being able to reach out and grab any piece of information you need at any moment via the wonders of the web, maybe you could try spending some time in Taiwan.
Today I was looking for a steakhouse in the neighbourhood. Google suggested a place called "Pasttime Cafe". Their only web presence is their Facebook page which lists their homepage as a Wretch.cc website (used to be a Geocities-type thing here but was bought and unceremoniously closed by Yahoo this year).
Next suggestion, "My Home Steak". Everywhere including Google has the website listed as http://steakmyhome.com.tw, but the motherfucking website doesn't work without the www (this is a recurring theme and is made worse by the modern browser WTF of hiding the "www"). Even with the www, the website is horribly broken in any of the usual browsers.
At this point I have to switch to 3G tethering because the free WiFi I'm using in this cafe expires (yep, give all my information including name, address and passport number over an unsecured connection and I get a whole hour of free WiFi).
Next suggestion, the "Noble Family Steak House", whose motherfucking website doesn't work without the www. First I'm treated to a JavaScript popup:
"Please use Internet Explorer to view this website correctly". I guess they added that because if you use anything else their website looks like this:
Those news items behind the pics? They're about new branch openings all over the country. But they can't make a website that works in more than one browser? By the way the navigation is all in Flash, so bad luck if you don't/can't use that. This website was made in 2009, year of the iPad.
Believe me, I could go on, and this is a fairly typical experience.
The positive in all this? I feel like life's a real adventure again. Even with language barriers aside I have no idea what's going on and where I'm going when I'm here, and I kinda like it.
(Though if their food hygiene is anything like their ability to make a website, this will be my last post on these forums)