Was the road hobby better before or after the internet?

[bugo]

One thing I miss about the old days is being genuinely surprised about something and waiting for the next year's atlas to show it.  I was driving on I-44 in western MO in 1995.  I was planning on exiting onto US 166.  When I approached the sign, I could see it had 2 shields on it.  WTF?  Then I got close enough to read the numbers.  US 400? WTF?  I followed it to Baxter Springs where it then followed ALT US 69 north.  I had no idea this highway existed, where it went, what it was for.  And it nagged me until I found a map with US 400 printed on it.  Nowdays, if a new US route were commissioned we would know about it before the signs even went up.

[pianocello]

Definitely after, although I don't have many memories of roadgeeking before the Internet. I have many reasons, mostly mentioned earlier, but with the Internet I can get older maps from pretty much anywhere on eBay.