[bbulkow]

This post is quite nice in naming the people who did all the improvements. During this time, I was at a company trying to fit browser tech into consumer electronics, so we had to build the technology to run on actual inexpensive and cheap systems. Which became a core unmentioned technology, now called AJAX. Several engineers went to keyhole right at the time of the Google purchase, and did very well. Also remember Earth did little for Google, it was all maps - which had no flying demo, it was just 2d (ish) and useful.

[tinus_hn]

The basis of AJAX was Outlook Web Access:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook_on_the_web

First with (of course) an Internet Explorer only plugin to asynchronously load XML, then standardized across browsers.

[iszomer]

> Whenever a movie says “based on a true story,” it’s likely to be fictionalizing large chunks of the story without sufficient validation, for dramatic, political, or other purposes. A lot of the theories in this TV series turn out to be bullshit.

Ironically, John Hanke went off to found Niantic as a startup within Google and launched it's first augmented reality game called Ingress on this fictionalized premise.