One of the things that I love about the Internet is that I can use it for so many reasons. Along with watching television shows and movies, and play games, I use to to send emails (which I love much more than snail mail!) and I can use it to help me find local restaurants and businesses. I can even pick a destination city of someplace that I hope to visit on a vacation and use the Internet to perform a local search to see what activities and businesses are in the area I plan to visit.
I can remember when my wife moved up here over thirty years ago one of the first things she did was call the phone company before she moved and had them mail her a copy of the local yellowpages for her to look through. She said it really helped her to understand the area she was moving into a lot better, knowing what resources were here before she actually arrived!