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Pastimes : Techride -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (1090)	4/24/1999 5:30:00 PM
From: Joana Tides	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7442

Howdy Pals, so LIVE AT TECHSTOCK '99 was cut short this week, but we're off in a moment to Greenwich Village NYC to eat dinner, shop for clothes, look for a good show, and get tickets for Dick Dale next weekend. While trying to get a map from the village to the place in Soho, I wasted time on "Find" only to fill up my temp history (big brother knows where I'm going LOL) with a long list of total junk "map sites"; just a shill to pay for a fancy map to be sent is all they are, and these mapsite.com etc's. only give free directions which would have had me a half hour out of my way, through two tunnells, and paying an unnecessary toll on the Turnpike to boot (like helpless tourists get when asking for directions in DownEast New England, Ah-Yup). Wouldn't you think they'd put 2 and 2 together and guess that this is a turn-off for customers? I mean, who sends for a map anyway; a map is something when you want it, you want it NOW. Well, finally I did THINK of my favorite Portals and Of Course The Right Ones are on Go2net.com and on Yahoo. It Red Stars the site, Streets are Clear, zoom in zoom out, Printable No Download, Ba-Da-Bing. And made Lemonade From The Lemon - 1) Time spent reminded me of why I'm glad I got shares in GNET and YHOO 2)DOTCOM beamed me a vision of the future! Fast Forward maybe a decade... there I am lost wanting a map and needing to make a phone call. So I go to a Public Booth and put my Internet Credit Card (like CYCH is trying to start up)(got no shares in that) in the slot. Click to the Directory, find "Maps and Directions", find my destination from a recognizable starting point, and click "Print". While it's printing I dial the destination from the phone number that Information On The Internet gave- just to ask for a landmark from the directions I've figgered out - not wanting their directions as that's who confused me in the first place (Been There, Pals? Don'tcha HATE That? Not to brag but no hs kids got out of my classroom not being able to voice and write decent directions - it's a Basic Life Skill in short supply). Finally I take my card out of the slot, get back into the car, and go. And all this is moot if I have me one of them Cadillac Satellite directional systems by then. But anyway, I think this is what's the Future Of The Internet (turning another page into the professor, this is an old homework assignment from Blue) - there'll be Web Booths in the future same as now - ergonomically designed only for greys, with a too-short cord and no place to jot something down properly; wherever what we now call phone booths are located. And the basic phone calls will be cheap, emergency calls free, and fancy stuff like printed out maps and stockstuff won't be so cheap. Sounds doubleplusgood? 909, Joanie