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Anon uses a phone book (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was a post-doc during this period. I had a mobile phone but data was eyebleedingly expensive, and there wasn't much to do on mobile. Most companies had a minimal web presence and very little directed towards mobile. I drove across the US in 2009 and even then it was better to use the information preloaded on my Garmin than the mobile web.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I remember it being iffy when I used it back then, the 8320 didn't have GPS so it was trying to use cell towers to figure out the turn by turn. It was slower, but not as slow as the connection speed would seem because every page load wasn't dependent on a thousand different CDNs and a hundred different trackers.

A dedicated GPS was essential for cross country (if you didn't want paper maps or printouts).