Without internet, how can we live?

In these days, a scene always floats in my mind: the internet is unaccessible.
For so many years, I have become more and more dependent on the internet, I read news everyday, contact my friends, find the development of technologies, pay attention to stock indexes, write blogs, everything on the internet seems to be attractive and useful.
But in recent days, the optical line deeply in the sea is damaged by the earthquake, many foreign sites cannot be visited, but without the NY Times, Sun, I do not know what is going on in the world, though I can get to know some news through other medias, the habit is disturbed, everything cannot be comfortable!
The communication measures are of various kinds, why should we wait for several days? we can use the satellite, microwave, but we haven't used, so it seems that the communication of our world is not so reliable as we have expected.