The sad thing is that it's not a time warp. It's how a millions of people still browse the web today. I know people who are still on 1.5Mb DSL, who are only a couple miles from the city center. Not only is the line limited to 1.5Mb, but they are so deteriorated, that you can't get speeds over 768Kb. It's extremely common any time you get just a little tiny bit outside of the city.

It's already painful on less-than-ideal hotel WiFi where, worse, people tend to go to new/uncached content such as maps, weather sites, and regional stuff.

I've done Remote Desktop from an airplane and that was actually quite snappy

Or go to Antarctica. A lot of "normal" web pages don't load.