I fondly recall the transitional days of looking up a route on MapQuest and printing out the result, and how I discovered that when MapQuest was given a destination address it did not know, it would just sort of average out the entire city you were heading towards and plonk you somewhere in the middle of it.

I discovered this while driving several hours across Georgia to a tech conference thingie and finding myself deposited by MapQuest in the middle of some kind of abandoned industrial park.

This was also before cell phones had long battery life and easy charging and the ability to connect to the internet to Google things like the phone number of the building you were supposed to be at.

So, yeah, even though I’m old enough to speak fluent Paper Map, the GPS era could not have come to soon for me.