Yeah the problem came with verbal communication, you can't transcribe a language you don't understand, and good luck getting a stranger to type sentences on your smartphone (at a time when most people didn't have one), you mostly got garbage translations. When speech-to-text got good enough for on the spot translation, that was a game changer, but that had to be around 2015 or something.
That's assuming you had a connection at all, at the time you paid for connection DURATION, not traffic, so you were offline most of the time. And roaming data had impossible costs.
As an European, this is bullshit. 10 minutes walking (5km/h) is 830m, living at 415m in walking distance (not air) from a restaurant is statistically unlikely for anyone not living in a city center. Let alone actually having more than one choice.
I've never understood this "let's mix two cleaning agents together to make them clean better!" thing. If that was the case, don't you think the manufacturers would sell this product pre-made?
That's how it works for international standards, like for devices and machines. Wanna build something? Follow the standard! Want to know the standard? You've got to pay!
I mean, I don't carve but I make things and get completely absorbed and lose track of time, then gain track back, ignore it and keep working