Google Maps Satellite View was once nearly called ‘Bird Mode’
When big MNCs introduce something, it turns into a standard. For example, Google Maps calling its prominent feature as Satellite View, which might have been even crazier if one of the representatives had not secretly coded it this way. Google Maps co-creator Bret Taylor took to his official Twitter handle to expose the ‘silly Google Maps origin story’. The Twitter thread consists of the back story of the mapping service’s famous Satellite View feature. Back in 2005 when the Google Maps squad was deliberating on the name for what we today recognize as the Satellite View, super bosses Sergey Brin and Larry Page planned to hold an executive review when specific decisions were made within the span of a huge countdown clock. Also Read: 29 Breathtaking Satellite Photos Of Earth That Will Give You Goosebumps Under the buzzer’s pressure, everyone was throwing names including ‘satellite’ and ‘aerial’. Just when Brin proposed ‘Bird Mode’, the buzzer buzzed. The outcome had...