Mastodawn

Digichelle Jul 29, 2023

I have a fun story for y’all.

I was a 90s kid who grew up in the Los Angeles area. (I still live there.) Back in those days, we mere mortals didn’t have GPS. If we Angelinos wanted to find our way around, we relied on the good old Thomas Guide.

I didn’t drive back then, because I was a snot-nosed kid who could barely clear the “you need to be this tall to ride” sign at Disneyland. But my brother and I were entrusted with navigating for our mom. Both of us got really fucking good at it.

Show thread

Ryan Welsh Jul 29, 2023

@digichelle We must be close in age. I had to use the giant road atlas to navigate my mother around endless construction detours in Beloit on long haul road trips when I was little. Early digital mapping like MapQuest was just becoming a thing when I started driving. But you still had to print everything off before a trip or jot down the directions.

That feels like a very different time. Oof.

Show thread

Digichelle

@RyanWelsh ’Twas a very different time indeed! And yeah, I remember printing directions off MapQuest for later use. I can’t say I miss that, but it was (IMHO) a necessary step in the process towards today’s navigation tech. And it sure as hell beat pulling over to use a paper map or completely winging it!