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Not a smartphone in sight.
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I have respect for those guys who could live without Instagram, unlike current generation... :)
I would struggle without maps myself.
You could get maps in any bookshop or petrol station.
I really miss maps. Like, not the objects themselves, I could just buy some nice maps if I wanted to today, but I miss the feeling of exploration you got from navigating using one. You'd have to pay attention to your surroundings, get lost and found again a bunch of times, etc. Totally inefficient but it was adventure. By the time I got to adulthood and could really do my own trips we started getting GPS and all that jazz and it's just not the same making it to an unknown destination anymore.
I feel like you'd enjoy orienteering as a hobby (assuming you also like the woods).
Doing an old school car trip with your location turned off on your phone could be cool too, assuming no impatient passengers.
I've done stuff like this finding a specific friends house in some small towns. "Okay they're on suchandsuch street, lets try to find it!" then "okay I found suchandsuch street, now lets figure out where their house number is"
Meanwhile my parents will blindly follow the GPS onto closed roads and old logging trails
I was born in the right era to use Google maps, I get lost in my own town and I have lived here for 31 years... A physical map would be too much for my dumb brain.
Yeah but then you would have to find where you are, find where you are going and make your own route. Quite time consuming if you walk or drive to lots of different places.
But yeah, the big advantage would be that I would actually know where I am. I think I've lost that feeling of knowing where things are in relation to other things.
You know... in 2003 you could get a GPS very easily?
Sure, it just cost more than a decent PC: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/reviews/garmin-streetpilot-2620-review/ Not many people I know actually had a GPS in their car before they had a smart phone.
Yeah I think people who weren't there has some weird perception of that time. Almost nobody had a GPS. People didn't know what it was even. It's only with mobile phones it has become common knowledge.