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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

by using a paper map like some sort of mystical land pirate

Oof, I remember going to people's homes to install phone and Internet links using paper maps because we didn't have maps on our phones back then and the GPS were mostly shit and out of date.
Some of the smaller villages were barely there on the regional maps, aside from maybe a dot near a main road with none of their actual streets.
For these, we'd call or stop by city hall, sometimes they'd have a shitty map or just directions.

I'm getting old...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I remember printing out turn-by-turn directions from MapQuest lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I remember MapQuest on dialup

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I did this as well. When it was new, it was freaking revolutionary.

Barely a decade prior to that, you'd have to call AAA, give them your itinerary, and they'd mail you a custom triptik for your journey. And it would cost. You can still get these, but why?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I remember going to our AAA office to pick That up. Our agent would walk through the trip with us.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good backup in case your phone shits the bed or you end up somewhere with no data

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can download your trip for offline use in google maps or Apple Maps. Or fall back to the gps of your car.

I really don’t see any point nowadays tbh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Eh. I might consider this if I had a long and complex road trip. Last major trip I took (1000 miles) I stayed on interstates for about 90% of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I remember when Google started taking photos of roads to create StreetView, I thought it was crazy. Surely it would have been impossible to document enough roads to make it worthwhile!