Haha yeah. MapQuest. That’s old school, you silly geezers. Let’s get ya to bed.
Slowly folds up his road atlas hoping no one notices
Fun fact: Michelin stars come from the before times where Michelin would print a yearly road guide with maps and locations and would give stars to the best places. The guide was so popular that getting a Michelin star became a thing. When printed maps ended the stars remained. That’s why a tire company became synonymous with best restaurants
“Sometimes, you just had to stop and find someone to ask for directions…”
i used to have to buy printed maps from the magazine racks at the grocery stores back in the 80s
And you had to figure out how to fold those.
Forgot about that half the time something was folded wrong
Oohhhh I forgot about those!!!
Thomas Guide in the city, AAA Trip-Tik for road trips.
Pages? Like a static display made from dead trees?
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Oh that’s nothing. Before then we had to commit landmarks to memory and just call back on it as you’re driving.
Ripped map pages out of the phone book
Rand McNally has just entered the chat
My grandmother still does this for some gods forsaken reason and somehow is worse at it than me. Mind you ive been having to track down adresses for work for about 3 years now but c’mon.
I went camping with my family last week somewhere with no signal. I got there fine, but when it was time to leave I had to just follow roads a general direction until I got signal again (and backtrack the hour I went the opposite way).
I had downloaded an offline map on Google maps but it just wasn’t working. Wish I had printed it!
I am astounded people managed to drive around Japan without gps. The signage is awful here. Even with gps it can be a struggle at times.
We didn’t have a printer so we wrote down the instructions and memorized them as much as possible because we understood that not paying attention to the road would get someone killed.
The same people can’t get their fucking eyes off their cellphone now.
And the scaling was fucked all to hell.
I remember those days.
