Do you remember the BBC’s Domesday 1986- a 900 year celebration of the Domesday Book in Videodisc form? A few years ago there was an Observer article that pointed out that – while the original was still legible, the £2.5m videodisc wasn’t.
Not quite true, it turns out. First of all, you can visit the Public Record Office. But this Domesday Project website created in 2004 by LongLife Data (the people who built the emulator for the PRO) offers a glimpse of what went on before Google Earth.
See also: Malevolent and CIC Earth (from Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson) – the real inspiration for Google Earth.
