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Flying Used to Be a Big Deal. Here's What We Traded Away to Make It Cheap.
Travel

Flying Used to Be a Big Deal. Here's What We Traded Away to Make It Cheap.

In the 1970s, boarding a commercial flight meant dressing up, sitting down to a hot meal, and paying what would be thousands of dollars in today's money. Somewhere between then and now, flying stopped being an occasion and became something closer to a bus ride with wings. The question is whether that trade-off was actually worth it.

We Used to Drive Across America With a Paper Map and Absolutely No Backup Plan
Technology

We Used to Drive Across America With a Paper Map and Absolutely No Backup Plan

Before GPS and Google Maps, a cross-country road trip meant folding a map badly, stopping at gas stations for directions, and occasionally just being lost — sometimes for hours. It sounds chaotic. In a lot of ways, it was. But something about navigating without a safety net made the journey feel like it actually meant something.