I believe it was more so in the inverse.
I spent like 1/2 an hour in 1994 making Trumpet Winsock work so I could dial into my SLIP (PPP? Yeah, sure!) account and use WinGopher and Mosaic (rarely) at a blazing 2400 baud. Of course, I had to learn how to use Gopher, migrate between the sites through various links, and I could spend hours reading dissertations, then talk to people all over the world via Usenet.
...now I just Google for stuff and get insulted on chat boards.
I'd say the inverse was true - the longer you're on the internet, the dumber you get, even if you learn things.
