Microsoft built what was basically Google Earth 4 years before Google — and it threw it all away
In 1997, Microsoft built Terraserver, a vast one terabyte storage system that was the forefather to the big data centers today. On it, the company hosted the first-ever publicly available satellite imagery of the world. Essentially, Microsoft built Google Earth — four years before …
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