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What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (www.theatlantic.com)
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Recently started using a LightPhone II when out of the house, and I found the article captured my current experience pretty well. It’s not so bad to be bored sometimes.

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[–] JoJoGAH@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used paper maps before internet and smart phones, I used to have a better sense of where I was . I bought a local map recently as well as a good compass, the compass just to get oriented in which direction things are.
I feel more connected and grounded than when using Google maps.
Surprises are part of this path but that's true of any adventure.

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Paper maps -> printed map quest directions -> early GPS device -> Google maps with live updates.

Used them all.

Towns and Cities with numbered streets and avenues are super easy with regular maps.

Trying to find ANYTHING in a city of only named streets requires a huge amount of memorizing without search.