Comment on Anyone old enough to have used this before GPS?

Jerb322@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That looks a lot nicer than the big foldable pieces of s*** that we all had.

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  • three@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You are literally posting in a community with the word shit in the name.

    SHIT

    Now your turn.

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    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have nerve damage in my hands. I use a lot of voice dict ation and the default has curse word censored. I don’t care enough to change it.

      Frankly it’s shocking to me that so many people on Lemmy first off don’t know this and second off care so very much that they have to bring it up whenever it happens.

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      • three@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’re right, I should have known all of that information. Next time, before I post, I’ll be sure to gather up all the things I don’t know before I press send.

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      • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sounds like you should get a better app to transcribe your words instead of whining about people being ableist

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Shit! :33)

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The most common ones were books that you’d flip east/west through, or skip to the indicated page for north/south, right?

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    • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You talking about a MAPSCO?

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      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        We don’t use nearly as many genericized trademarks where I’m from. I know that several publishers used this technique to make a road atlas of the Czech Republic in the 90s and 00s.

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    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Man I’m sure it was something like that. Honestly at this point I mostly remember what MapQuest looked like if we wanted to go old school.

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• Pringles@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  By the time I started driving, we already had gps, but I do remember my dad pulling those folder or foldable maps when driving somewhere for the first time. His advice on how to read these things was “Look for the river crossings. It usually doesn’t matter much which road you take, you will always end up at the same crossings.”

  And this is why, when planning a road trip in the pre-waze days, I would always check the river crossings first and when is a low traffic time to cross them, because you don’t want to be stuck for 2 hours because an ungodly amount of drivers need to be squeezed through a narrow tunnel.

  But nowadays it’s hardly relevant anymore, only to make sure you don’t take too long of a lunch/dinner break or get stuck in said situation.

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