#Road Trips

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Video thumbnail — MapQuest: The Forgotten Tech That Started It All
Trends 1996–2000s peak

MapQuest

Before your phone knew where you were, you printed directions from MapQuest and prayed you didn't miss step 14. The pre-GPS road-trip ritual, in a stack of warm printer paper.

A pair of Motorola TalkAbout TA280 SLK walkie-talkies, one black and one blue
Tech 1997–2004

Motorola Talkabout

The chunky yellow walkie-talkies that kept families connected before everyone had a cellphone — two-car road-trip caravans, ski slopes, theme parks, and kids roaming the neighborhood with a two-mile leash. Over.