Me too, but with office supplies instead of pizzas. They handed me a ripped out chunk of phone book, the “map” section at the back, and let me go. It was also in the liminal period where cellphones were ubiquitous enough that most payphones had been ripped out, but a cellphone was still too expensive for me to afford, so that was fun.
Recently I’ve been thinking back to when I’d roadtrip around, like 6-12 hour drives, to meet online friends. The MapQuest directions would be 2 or 3 pages long, but that wasn’t manageable since I was driving, often at night. I’d write down the highways, and the miles I’d be on them and maybe the last 3 streets on a small piece of notepad paper and just hope for the best. No idea now how it ever worked. 😁
I remember my parents planning long journeys using some piece of software (AA branded I think) that would print out all your turns, intersections and distance between them (in the late 90s).
In the mid 00s when I needed to navigate myself, I would plan it out on a map (Melways crew rise up!) and write myself prompts on paper in big writing with arrows so I could glance at it while driving.
Basically exactly like modern sat nav but without the live traffic.
Me too, but with office supplies instead of pizzas. They handed me a ripped out chunk of phone book, the “map” section at the back, and let me go. It was also in the liminal period where cellphones were ubiquitous enough that most payphones had been ripped out, but a cellphone was still too expensive for me to afford, so that was fun.
Recently I’ve been thinking back to when I’d roadtrip around, like 6-12 hour drives, to meet online friends. The MapQuest directions would be 2 or 3 pages long, but that wasn’t manageable since I was driving, often at night. I’d write down the highways, and the miles I’d be on them and maybe the last 3 streets on a small piece of notepad paper and just hope for the best. No idea now how it ever worked. 😁
I remember my parents planning long journeys using some piece of software (AA branded I think) that would print out all your turns, intersections and distance between them (in the late 90s).
In the mid 00s when I needed to navigate myself, I would plan it out on a map (Melways crew rise up!) and write myself prompts on paper in big writing with arrows so I could glance at it while driving.
Basically exactly like modern sat nav but without the live traffic.