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by mtmail 1380 days ago
Terravision existed prior (https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-earth-sued-patent-infr...)
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SllX 1380 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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