When you're driving you're re-enacting an ancient space combat SIM
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When you're driving you're re-enacting an ancient space combat SIM
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Re: When you're driving you're re-enacting an ancient space combat SIM
#2The shared session cursors with location flags kinda surprised me
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#3Weird, highly distracting arrow things darting around the page. I gave up trying to read it after a few paragraphs.
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#4I used to select the text as I read a web page. About 10y ago I began to think that selecting text is bad habit. About 5y ago I began to think that interacting with a web page in any way while I read, other than PgDn is a bad habit. This page proves that it's an extremely bad habit. I should stop using the mouse altogether while browsing, and maybe using a touchscreen to directly click links.
Re: When you're driving you're re-enacting an ancient space combat SIM
#5TL;DR: the little arrow that represents your car on Google Maps is descended from Space Wars.
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#6Weird, highly distracting arrow things darting around the page. I gave up trying to read it after a few paragraphs.
yeah it's other peoples mouse courser, as they browse the site.
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#7Weird, highly distracting arrow things darting around the page. I gave up trying to read it after a few paragraphs.
Doesn't work on Firefox/Linux, I see nothing moving. What I do see and drove me a bit crazy is that the background slowly and slightly morphing color, depending on how much time passed.
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#9Has the "in Google Maps" been editorialized out of the title? It makes no sense otherwise, I was racking my brain trying to come up with the aspects of driving that don't precede computers, so I've been clickbaited to find out wtf this is about.
Also, what is the little arrow in Spacewar re-enacting? Perhaps the shape of the reed stylus pressed into a clay tablet?
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#10> To give you an idea of how much 1985 was a different era: there were no GPS satellites
No publically available GPS satellites. Wiki says first launch was '78.