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My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps

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  1. dkurth · · focus · HN ↗
    In 2009, Google Street View had only been gathering images in Austin for about a year, I think. I pulled up right behind the Street View car at a red light, and I waved out the window, hoping that would get captured. I sent an email to my friends with a link to the location and said, "check this out in a couple of months!"

    When I checked later that year, there was no image of me, so I thought the camera had not been active, and I forgot all about it.

    Then, while looking through old emails a couple of weeks ago, I found that one and clicked the link. I clicked to see images from 2009, and sure enough, there was my little white Honda. And when I moved around the map, I found an image where my hand was out the window, waving! It was like I was waving to myself from the past. Pretty neat!

    1. rzzzt · · focus · HN ↗
      A forgotten classic video depicts a similar story: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;fPgV6-gnQaE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;fPgV6-gnQaE
      1. sublinear · · focus · HN ↗
        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yDzAAjzbV5g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yDzAAjzbV5g

        Not sure if this is forgotten by now (wow it&#x27;s been 5 years!) but the quest to find &quot;Michaelsoft Binbows&quot; is a modern classic.

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