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...once someone else had thought about it and executed them in an intuive manner

• alenrozac 4y ago
  ...like Google Earth?
  • RF_Savage 4y ago
    Which was Googles version of NASA WorldWind?
    • SllX 4y ago
      Keyhole EarthViewer predates WorldWind and is what became Google Earth after Google acquired Keyhole.
      • RF_Savage 4y ago
        Cool, did not know that. Apparently the idea was less novel than I thought.
  • deleted 4y ago
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  • mtmail 4y ago
    Terravision existed prior (https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-earth-sued-patent-infringement/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-earth-sued-patent-infr...)
    • SllX 4y 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.