c/memes · by dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world · 3yBefore Google maps 460 points · 9 comments · view on lemmy.world
9 Comments
Rezzit@feddit.de · 14 pts · 3y
"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
"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
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
EmperorHenry@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 3y
Do remember that even Alexander the Great lost an army once because he took the wrong way.