# Map o' the moon
To celebrate the anniversary of the first moon landing on 20 July 1969 (a whole 3 years before I was born), Google has launched Google Moon.
If today is a celebration of technology and progress, you have to stop and consider the incredible, dizzying progress and strides in technology that allows a gazillion Joe Schmoes across the world to sit at their PCs, and at next to no cost, connect to other computers halfway across the planet, and download and view incredibly detailed maps and pictures of the planet around us, and our moon. And not only that, but write up their thoughts about it, and make those thoughts available to people from every corner of that planet. We really are amazing creatures.
As an aside, Google haven't lost their sense of humour - visit the moon.google.com home page, and push the slider all the way up ;-)
If today is a celebration of technology and progress, you have to stop and consider the incredible, dizzying progress and strides in technology that allows a gazillion Joe Schmoes across the world to sit at their PCs, and at next to no cost, connect to other computers halfway across the planet, and download and view incredibly detailed maps and pictures of the planet around us, and our moon. And not only that, but write up their thoughts about it, and make those thoughts available to people from every corner of that planet. We really are amazing creatures.
As an aside, Google haven't lost their sense of humour - visit the moon.google.com home page, and push the slider all the way up ;-)
File under: techie : {2005.07.20 23:08}
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