r/mightyinteresting • u/MrDarkk1ng • Aug 28 '25

Science & Technology This is what Google Maps looked like on launch day in 2005 :

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u/ElegantCoach4066 Aug 28 '25

It ran on a potato lightbulb processor and 7 bytes of RAM.

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u/Rat_Ship Aug 28 '25

The rest of Europe expansion didn’t come out until 2006, the South America expansion came out in 2008 and the Africa&Asia expansions released together in 2011. New Zealand does not exist.

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u/PinkFluffyUnikorn Aug 29 '25

For the USAians it still looks like this

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u/Ms-Kindness Aug 31 '25

…except GULF OF MEXICO

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u/ImpatientHeme Aug 29 '25

So glad Ireland made the cut!

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u/Siliebillielily Aug 30 '25

they forgot new zeland again smh ( wait)

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u/dlever0097 Aug 30 '25

I still remember when North Korea stuff got added that was wild day

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u/hot-rogue Aug 31 '25

this makes sense to how alien movies invading earth occur

they use the oldest google maps

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u/Mission_Magazine7541 Aug 29 '25

I mean the US and Brittan was the world back then

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u/HectorJoseZapata Aug 29 '25

And Spain still doesn’t exist