I'm going with (A).  Depending on the length of the segment, walkie-talkies might not have the range to communicate, especially with 90's tech.  Writing on strips of paper just seems too haphazard for an engineer.

Regarding segment creation, current count for those I've created is at 25 (all running segments).  Some are in my own neighborhood, almost all are within the city I live in.  One in particular is hotly contested amongst our regular Thursday morning crew, and raced almost weekly with major bragging rights for anyone who can even squeeze into the top 5.  A "changing of the crown" (new segment record) gets a post on the club's social media page.

My guess is (c); I can imagine the strips of paper transforming into the leaderboard concept.

I try to use lots of different run routes so segments are a great way of assessing progress without having to run the same route every time for comparison purposes. Longer ones seem most useful for this rather than focusing on planning a run around trying hard on one section and hardly ever aware of when I'm on a segment.

If I follow a route and there aren't many segments I sometimes create one and try to make applicable to to as many people as possible (junction to junction). I created one that I think is the easiest way up a local hill with lots of paths on the side, following the least steep gradient paths that join to reach the top; it hasn't caught on and is the only segment I have the course record for!

Thanks for participating and for sharing your experience with segments. I agree that segments are such a fun way to measure your own progress without having to carry out the exact same route. The fact that you have such an inclusive mindset when it comes to creating your own local segments is precisely what Strava is all about! The more accessible, safe and intuitive a segment is, the more people will want to try it out. Congrats on holding the CR 👑 !

That sounds like some really fun, friendly competition on the popular segment you created -- I'm curious whether it's uphill, a short sprint, or a longer effort?

With tongue firmly in cheek 

my favourite segments are, of , orange segments.  Big fat juicy ones 🤣🤣🤣

But more seriously, no I’ve not created any, but do look at the ORs etc to see how my performance tracks. 

I'll go with (A) as well.

The first time I've heard of Strava is when a local race director mentioned segments as a cool way to compete on well known hill climbs. That was in a context of trail running. As I am a competitive person, I found the Segments feature to be super interesting and engaging. I started uploading my runs to Strava manually from a computer. At the time there wasn't an automatic sync yet and Strava app didn't even exist.

My favorite segments are fairly long well known routes, like entire climbs from a trailhead to a summit or long loop routes, or FKTs. It has to be at least 40 minutes worth of a hard effort for me to like a segment, and there are some that I've done that require 3+ hours to finish. The longer segment is the better I tend to do. Unfortunately, discovering long segments is next to impossible.

One thing that I really wish is that Garmin's implementation of Live Segments was better. I find it super unreliable when used for twisty trail running segments. Basically, despite being super accurate, my latest generation Garmin watch can't finish a single long mountain running segment successfully - when tracking it live it always ends up dropping off, but afterwards Strava has no issue matching that segment. Perhaps Strava should work with Garmin to make this feature more reliable. Also, hardly any Garmin users know about Strava Live Segments. When I mention Strava Live Segment issues on Garmin Forums I get almost no responses. That is something that Strava should definitely refine and popularize more because it is such a unique feature! 

Thanks everyone for participating @mercerkg @BryanC @Silentvoyager @MattS_bsb!
The correct answer is: Davis Kitchel reports that he started recording his times on strips of paper he’d carry around in his jersey pockets.

“Every time I got a new PR to the top, or to a waypoint along the climb, I'd update the data before the next time. I had dozens of these strips of paper which were often sweat damaged and crumpled. They served as my first basic concept of segments in single player mode.”

Pretty wild, don't you think? 
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