It's also funny because I think that the internet is still overrated, moreover, some of the supposed 'outdated' virtues lamented in the video (by virtue of the fact they are promoted by the out-of-touch luddite father) would be the 'your sister will appreciate her education more because she worked hard for it' ... I think that's a rather timelessly good piece of advice.
And the doofus mechanic literally watching cartoons, while avoiding work, who could not find the engine on the car? How long do you think he lasts in a small town where word travels fast? In my 'home town' the mechanic guy is utterly competent and trustworthy. And frankly creative and smart, he actually enjoys solving problems all day every day.
[1] http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/internet-broadband/
All of the various school libraries and the public library were online by 1997. We did have nice public schools and a solid public library, it gave me an immense appreciation for those. So even if a household didn't happen to have a PC, the family still had free or very low cost access to get online.
I'm sure there are some horror stories of small towns and access from that time. That wasn't my experience. The relatively low cost of setting up an ISP and the phone network access made it very easy to get online in the mid 1990s where I grew up. The nearest major metro was ~120 miles away. Intellectually and culturally the Web was an oasis in a desert, it gave me access to ideas and people from all over the world at a time when the Web still felt like a small experimental mosh pit of people interlinking. Growing up in a small town likely made my Web experience more vivid and energized than what you would have experienced had you grown up in NYC. I instantly got the value proposition it was offering the first time I used it, it was subtle like a bolt of lightning to the skull.