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re: What did people use before cell phones?
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:09 am to HenryParsons
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:09 am to HenryParsons
Street navigation is the best thing about phones and gps.
I can remember being in an unfamiliar town having to buy a street map at a gas station and making calls from a pay phone for directions.
If you were from out of town it was a PITA.
I can remember being in an unfamiliar town having to buy a street map at a gas station and making calls from a pay phone for directions.
If you were from out of town it was a PITA.
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Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:13 am to AndyCBR
I was thinking about that the other day. It happens pretty often you’re on your way to X city but the interstate exit that says that city’s name isn’t the actual one your map says you’re getting off on. Must have been confusing before GPS.
And then on regular streets? It seems like it would be hard when out of town.
And then on regular streets? It seems like it would be hard when out of town.
This post was edited on 10/14/19 at 9:14 am
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:51 am to AndyCBR
quote:
Street navigation is the best thing about phones and gps.
I can remember being in an unfamiliar town having to buy a street map at a gas station and making calls from a pay phone for directions.
If you were from out of town it was a PITA.
Waze is the single greatest app ever created for this reason right here. Turn-by-turn navigation and intelligent routing to identify traffic backups and send you around them.
Posted on 10/14/19 at 10:13 am to AndyCBR
quote:absolutely. It actually took some skill to navigate a vacation.
Street navigation is the best thing about phones and gps.
I can remember being in an unfamiliar town having to buy a street map at a gas station and making calls from a pay phone for directions.
If you were from out of town it was a PITA.
Now you just plug it into your phone and go
Posted on 10/14/19 at 10:27 am to AndyCBR
quote:
Street navigation is the best thing about phones and gps.
I can remember being in an unfamiliar town having to buy a street map at a gas station and making calls from a pay phone for directions.
If you were from out of town it was a PITA
I still marvel at our parents doing vacations without the internet. In the 80s my family planned a trip to the southwest for 2 weeks. My dad just pinned places he thought we would stay.
We’d do whatever activity we had planned, he’d find the La Quinta, then from there, have them call the La Quinta in the next town we were stopping in.
We’d just drive around till we found dinner.
While I am impressed, my dad cussed at getting lost a heck of a lot on those car rides.
My kids take for granted that I can just plop directions in a strange town and arrive at a good restaurant that I found on yelp.
Posted on 10/14/19 at 10:54 am to AndyCBR
It sure is easy to find a coffee shop, gas station, etc with phones.
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