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
Rand McNally with all the folds <kiss>
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
Bruh, I remember being excited to be the one to stay up in the passenger seat with the atlas overnight making callouts from the highlighted route. A child never felt so important, needed, and critical to the operation.
look at what they took from us
“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
i have a shoe box full of them. every time i think about throwing them out, i can’t. some of them are the nice laminated ones!
Oohhhh I forgot about those!!!
Even that was a massive technological improvement from the days prior, when you had to buy an entire book of your city, or part of the city if you lived in a large city, and then plot your own course, and write directions down, or follow a tiny map in the book as you drove.
AAA did the same thing. Yellow highlighter marked the route.
I used AAA Trip-Tik or whatever it was called, a couple of times driving cross country. Worked pretty well, actually.
Rand McNally has just entered the chat
In Rand McNally, people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people!
Pages? Like a static display made from dead trees?
Thomas Guide in the city, AAA Trip-Tik for road trips.
Great Mapquest story: my two friends and I were driving from Gainesville Fl to Tuscaloosa, Al to visit another friend in college. I was in charge of the ‘quest, and we had the directions set on when to light the 6 blunts we rolled for the drive (aligned with the longest periods without having to turn, 70+ miles on the highway, etc).
Well, I missed the 0.2mi immediate exit before the 125mi straightaway and lit that next blunt. Long story short, we went like a hundred miles in the wrong direction because I told him we were good for a couple of hours.
My B
Oh shit! Hilarious!
Ripped map pages out of the phone book
I’d just use good old maps. Had a provincial one in my car plus a few city maps. Actually still have them there just in case I need to fall back.
Hell, I even delivered pizza in a city I lived in for a while but wasn’t very familiar with. Most deliveries involved looking for the street name in the index and getting grid coordinates to find it on the map on the wall of the place I worked, which I then related back to a street I knew how to get to and I memorized the last part to get to the side street I’d never heard of before that.
Only reason I started using Waze was after getting my last speeding ticket and deciding it was time to get that app I’d read about where police traps were crowd sourced. I like still having that general sense of direction so that following the suggested route is optional for getting to be final destination (though it does also help having a map to be able to check what side streets are connected).
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!
Oh that’s nothing. Before then we had to commit landmarks to memory and just call back on it as you’re driving.
