Amaya Toman In 1996, the Internet was certainly not yet a widespread thing worldwide. Nevertheless, at that time, more than a thousand people got together and decided to create a digital time capsule - it is this event that will be discussed in today's overview. In the second part, we will recall the day when Google announced the launch of its Google Maps.
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24 Hours in Cyberspace (1996)
On February 8, 1996, a special project called "24 Hours in Cyberspace" took place. This was an online event hosted by Rick Smolan, Jennifer Erwitt, Tom Melcher, Samir Arora and Clement Mok. As part of the project, roughly a thousand of the best photographers, editors, programmers and designers gathered in the online space - which was certainly not usual at the time - with the aim of creating a digital time capsule of online life and showing portraits of personalities whose lives were significantly marked by the ever-expanding internet The site of this online event was cyber24.com. The cost of the project was said to be around five million dollars, the financing was provided by about fifty different companies from the technology sector – for example Adobe Systems, Sun Microsystems or Kodak. A book of the same name was also created based on this event.
Here Comes Google Maps (2005)
On February 8, 2005, an announcement appeared on Google's official blog that the company was launching its service called Google Maps. "We think maps can be useful and fun, so we designed Google Maps to simplify the way you get from point A to point B," it was stated in the mentioned post, where the basic functions of Google Maps were further briefly described together with the method of their use. Google has really taken care of its maps from the very beginning - for example, in September 2005, after the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, it quickly updated the satellite view of the affected area around New Orleans.
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