Microsoft Invented Google Earth in the 90s Then Totally Blew It | Motherboard

Microsoft Invented Google Earth in the 90s Then Totally Blew It

A long-forgotten Microsoft project from the late 1990s revolutionized how we saw the Earth and became the underpinning technology of Google Maps and Google Earth.

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