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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Doesn't Maps or Google Earth have a time-line for places now? Thought it started 4 or 5 years ago, so it's not everywhere yet.
Though I think that's just fairly recent images and such. Maybe it permits us submitting really old info/photos?
You could probably set this up on a shared map, getting people to help/contribute/not be a troll would be the challenge.
Out of all the things to be a troll with.......this one just seems too niche to be fun. Maybe I'd be wrong as the feature got more popular. I could see someone making a photoshop of the road layout being a penis. But until theres a sizeable userbase to see it, I don't see it being worth the effort for them.
The desktop version of Earth has had it since the early 2010s if not earlier, I remember messing around with it while being taught how to use the measuring tools in a geography lesson, tbf that’s only for maps though not street view
Yep, when in street view you can look at old street views. It'll be cool in 20 years when the changes will be more apparent
On Google earth pro you can also look at older versions of the satellite maps, which is also very cool
Cool!
Thay's what I was thinking. Google maps/street view only goes back to the late 00s, but I'd like to go back as far as the early 20th century if not earlier