[HopenHeyHi]

Woah, check out this page: https://www.google.com/sky/about.html

2011 in the footer. Remnants of the old google of a by-gone era. Simultaneously feels both like yesterday and an eternity ago.

The video is from 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX9MeF2Au9c

I bet whoever made this is no longer there and it has been forgotten about internally.

[tazjin]

There was a time where employees could get paths under google.com/ for semi-personal projects.

[belter]

The comments from 15 years ago are even more interesting.

[Avicebron]

What's that quote about dying a hero vs living long enough to see yourself become the villain?

[B1FF_PSUVM]

Sometimes you chicken out, and someone else does it ...

To wit: around the same time, Google tossed out some service that would listen to your computer's mic for room sounds (such as a TV broadcast), and provide helpful info.

I guess people were creeped out, thing was shut down, and now we have Amazon's version ...

[LoganDark]

The prophecy.

[pinewurst]

Isn’t that Google in a nutshell?

[dredmorbius]

Only the young die good.