[kuya]

conformality and area are preserved on globes, both physical and virtual (like in google earth). as a kid, i remember thinking africa was huge from the globes that teachers had in classrooms.

in ~2007 or so, i actually tried to buy a physical globe for my desk. i went into a couple office supply stores and the high school age employees had never even heard of a globe. it was the strangest thing trying to explain what a globe was: "it's like a ball with a map on it".