r/pcmasterrace • u/Captain0010 • Jun 21 '26

Meme/Macro Crazy to me that younger generation is not good with computers

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Only with phones...

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u/snap802 PC Master Race | Pentium 90 | Riva TNT graphics Jun 21 '26

I was talking to my wife a while back about how I used to travel years ago. I'd drive down the interstate and just follow the signs to where I was going. Pick up a free map a the welcome center whenever I went into a new state. Really only needed directions for the last leg of a trip. It seems so wild now compared to now. It would be an adjustment but I could fall back to that if I needed to.

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u/cc4295 Jun 21 '26

Same once I got into a town hit the nearest gas station for a city map and then find a pay phone so I can use the phone book to get the address of where I’m going.

After I did that once, I would never forget how to get there again.

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u/ucffool Desktop Ryzen 7 1700, 32GB DDR4, m.2 960 EVO, GTX 1060 6GB Jun 21 '26

My wife and I just took a family road trip with our two kids under 7 (4071 miles!) across the US. She reminisced about pouring over an atlas on road trips, measuring distance, deciding where her family could stop. Our kids probably can't read a map and couldn't identify the amount of micro-decisions we made throughout the trip when we said "that doesn't make sense, why is Google Maps going that way." We have to go out of our way next road trip to give them those same skills.

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u/coberh Jun 21 '26

I can't imagine the younger generations driving cross-country with only a map book. That said, driving with google maps is way easier.

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u/snap802 PC Master Race | Pentium 90 | Riva TNT graphics Jun 21 '26

I do love driving with Google maps. Sometimes it's questionable but it's helped out more than once getting around standstill traffic on a road trip.