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Thread #163442 Message #4135840
Posted By: FreddyHeadey
08-Feb-22 - 10:40 AM
Thread Name: Armchair Archaeologist (via Google Earth)
Subject: RE: Armchair Archaeologist (via Google Earth)
Remember before 8th February 2005 ??
Happy Birthday Google Maps
BBC World Service Witness History The invention of Google Maps In 2005, a revolutionary online mapping service called Google Maps went live for the first time. It introduced searchable, scrollable, interactive maps to a wider public, but required so much computing power that Google's servers nearly collapsed under the strain.
Lars Rasmussen, one of the inventors of Google Maps, talks to Ashley Byrne.