Before Google maps

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Rezzit@feddit.de · 14 pts · 3y (1 reply)

"Go till the men speak Italian and continue until they speak something else" (Kingdom of Heaven)

dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

That's all good and well, unless you're starting from France and heading West.

(Nice quote, though.)

SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 3y (1 reply)

"No, I can't drive and read the map at the same time. You have to read the map, unless you drive and I navigate. No? Thought so."

Every trip.

Obi@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 3y

Trips felt so much more like an adventure back then though, thanks in no small part to that whole reading the map, getting lost, getting found again business.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

Suddenly: Liechtenstein!

bstix@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

At least the horses had better automatic driving.

dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Back then, they called AI: 'Artificial Incitatus'*

*(Incitātus (Latin pronunciation: [ɪŋkɪˈtaːtʊs] (meaning "swift" or "at full gallop") was the favourite horse of Roman Emperor, Caligula)

shackleford@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y

My how the times change...

superkret@feddit.de · 4 pts · 3y
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EmperorHenry@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
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PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 3y

Do remember that even Alexander the Great lost an army once because he took the wrong way.