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by alenrozac 1370 days ago
...like Google Earth?
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mtmail 1370 days ago
Terravision existed prior (https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-earth-sued-patent-infr...)
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SllX 1369 days ago
They probably got it from Snow Crash. The oldest surviving globes of the known world date back to 1492 according to Wikipedia and the Greeks probably created their own variations a few millennia ago.

Turtles, turtles, turtles! All the way down.

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RF_Savage 1370 days ago
Which was Googles version of NASA WorldWind?
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SllX 1369 days ago
Keyhole EarthViewer predates WorldWind and is what became Google Earth after Google acquired Keyhole.
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RF_Savage 1369 days ago
Cool, did not know that. Apparently the idea was less novel than I thought.
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