points by VMG 1 day ago | 0 comments
There is a Netflix miniseries about how two German underdog hackers built the first Google Earth precursor in 1994(!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billion_Dollar_Code
(IIRC the premise was that the underdogs invented something like mipmaps, which I found hard to believe. The core tech was probably already invented by 3d shooters at that time)
It's more like turning mipmapping into a paging system.