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Re:Google Treks by DanBC on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @08:45AM (#6211142)
> For one, yeah, "what if" we had these kind of views for the streets of London in 1900? I doubt many would care, same as not many care for 1900 music, 1900 books, 1900 photographs and such. Some scholars maybe.

You haven't seen the many-thousands upvoted threads of mashups of various locations in WWII and modern day? Or the sourcebooks that designers use for all the costume drama on TV and in movies?

EDIT: Here's an example Imgur thread. (http://imgur.com/a/2rNrn)

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Re:Google Treks by coldtea on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @12:56PM (#6212661)
As a fan and reader of history myself, you couldn't prove my point better.

I mean, if the best you can come up as "value most people get from historical data" is photo montages of WWII/now and better designed costumes for period movies..

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