Register here - as a registered user you get more features and fewer ads.
Google Earth Archaeology, Wednesday, July 20, 2011, by Henry Rothwell
According to one of Google Earth’s co-creators the inspiration for Google Earth originated with a description of a piece of software called Earth, which was instrumental to the plot of Neal Stephenson’s dystopian (but surprisingly fun) cyberpunk classic Snowcrash. In Stephenson’s novel Earth was a globe across which was tiled satellite imagery, maps, architectural designs and low level aerial photography. By ‘grabbing’ the globe and zooming in, the user could glean as much geographical information as they could wish for.
More at
https://web.archive.org/web/20110922072554/http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2011/google-earth-archaeology
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road