How is AI novelty different from the widespread use of internet in the 2000s

I don’t understand how is the rise of AI so much different from the mass use of internet in the early 2000s. I am a 90s GenZ, but I don’t really understand how a generation that witnessed the use of Wikipedia in the classrooms, Excel at work, etc. can be so baffled with AI. Wasn’t the begging of the internet a bigger deal for work and educational environments a bigger deal than AI today? Haven’t we not solved the “how do we integrate this into technology our daily lives” question already? The “frictionless”, “short attention spans” dilemma?