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Was it PhotoSynth ? https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosynth_can_connect_the_world_s_images/transcript?language=en https://www.ted.com/ta

• mey 6y ago
  Watching this demo makes it very stark how much our single page webapps are regressions in fluid performance.
  • fastball 6y ago
    Is this not a Silverlight app or something? I highly doubt that demo was JS / could run in multiple browsers without some proprietary runtime.
    • shakna 6y ago
      It was, in point of fact, a Java applet. [0] Older, less secure, but more powerful. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20191231213153/http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/applet/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20191231213153/http://phototour....
• oillio 6y ago
  After watching that video: Why did no one build the application that tied your personal photos with a global database of all the other public photos taken in the same place? Seems like it would have been an amazing application.
• AtomicOrbital 6y ago
  yes ... impressive TED talk back then and even now