I was reading a story the other day on Courier Mail (Brisbane, Australia) about the new Street View feature on Google Maps. If you want to read the whole article, click here. In short it gives you a 3D walk through of city streets all over the world. At the moment it is mostly the United States, Australia, and some asian and european cities that are available.
I thought this was unreal, had me really excited. When Google Earth and Google Maps first came out it made the entire world’s geography easily accessible to anyone with a reasonable internet connection. And now we can walk through cities in other countries without even visiting them.
Nostalgia set in, so first thing I had to do with the new Street View feature was to visit Kangaroo Point in Brisbane and walk around my old neighbourhood. The first thing I noticed was that the hotel across the road from KFC and McDonald’s wasn’t there yet. So the photos from the Street View feature must therefore be pretty old. That got me even more curious so I walked over to my old house and had a look in the backyard. Pleasently surprised, I’m sitting here in Sweden, and can see my old car which I sold last year, and my housemate Michelle’s car, standing in the back driveway of our old home in Kangaroo Point 
Talk about travelling back in time. On another note, I’ve been watching back to back episodes of Heroes! I think Hiro Nakamura should use Google Street View as a reference for his time travelling 
