When I was a kid, if you didn't know the answer to a question, that was it. You just didn't get to know.
Want to learn the lyrics to a popular song you heard on the radio? Too bad.
Not sure how far away the Burger King is from the school? Oh well.
Want to check if it's true there are no poisonous snakes indigenous to your state? Not happening.
Before the ubiquitous nature of information, you simply couldn't know things.
And before people say "well you could use a map" where the heck was a 12 year old going to find a town map? It's not like Pokémon where your neighbor's sister has plenty on hand.
Finding the answer to anything that popped in your head was often time consuming, required you to buy something, and required travel. It is amazing that anyone knew anything before the widespread availability of the internet. There were so many things that I wished I could learn about when I was a little kid that I straight up couldn't and it's wild to think how different it is now.