As I child I had a Panasonic with 2 shortwave bands, then as a teen got a Zenith Transoceanic and ran an antenna wire from my second floor window to a tree in the yard. (Still have the Zenith, but the band selector isn’t working as well as it should and if you don’t jiggle it just right, you end up with static.)
But, yes, the internet seems to have killed shortwave.
The 24/7 cable and satellite TV news was already killing shortwave; the internet just speeded things up.
How true, but the death (or severe restriction) of the internet might resurrect shortwave. That was my first thought after reading One Second After, and again this week after reading about an EU proposal to license all internet users. In either event, shortwave might again provide the only means of "unapproved" news from the outside world -- or any outside communications at all.