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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Before printed directions, I had a Mapsco book https://www.ebay.com/itm/266324662580 of Dallas and surrounding.

About half the size of a phone book, had to frantically study the map at stop lights, but damn near impossible to get lost if you had one.

Wouldn't call it nostalgia, like missing 56k modems, a "hostage to low tech".

[–] Boris_NotTooBadinoff@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Mapsco was a brilliant idea! I did a lot of driving to both old and new neighbourhoods back then. I was always buying the newest editions so I could get the updated streets for new subdivisions (I think they have had supplementals between major editions too)...kinda like a Google maps update...but with paper. I think I left a stack of those books in my truck when I traded it in as I had just been gifted a Garmin GPS