At least once a year, the alums of my fraternity get together with the pledges and tell them stories about funny or interesting things that happened during our own college years. Recently, I have noticed that the ubiquity of cell phones has made some of these narratives seem obsolete because the situations they describe do not make sense in a cell-phone enabled world. For example, we used to run an annual activity called road rallye where groups of people would divide up into different vehicles. Each team had a written instructions set with instructions to take them to a number of interesting places where they had to look around and find answers to various questions posed in the instructions. The car with the most right answers and the most exact mileage and the coolest team name would be declared the winner. Each year, someone would volunteer to write the road rallye instructions and feature different destinations. One year, the instructions indicated that half the team should proceed on foot while the other half of the team drove off in the vehicle. Although the intent was that the two subgroups would be brought back together again, many teams decided that splitting the party was too much of a bad idea, at night in an unfamiliar place, and rebelled against the instructions. These days, the students have a hard time imagining that once upon a time, if you split the party, there was no longer any way to communicate, and that there was a real possibility that you might keep missing each other all night.