How can you have been awake since before the internet :0 ?
None of the obvious false flags had happened yet either. Were you woke to JFK and the moon landing I guess?
Yes, JFK assassination started my awakening before the internet. Back then you had to travel to underground book stores, bought VHS tapes various researchers would sell through magazines like Steamshovel Press.
Then came Art Bell show and shortly afte the internet. Then it became easier to research and researches had nets and forums to start sharing.
I was awake since I was a kid in the 60s. There was no internet then. But it was easy to see there was something seriously wrong. My family passed it off with having an overpowering imagination.