j4ybee

the overall program also included a 3D terrain browser built on top of .geo that pre-dated Google Earth by 4 or 5 years.

http://www.ai.sri.com/digital-earth/

those were great times... sadly, the Principal Investigator passed away, one of the lead devs left the company for greener (for-profit) pastures, and the program was de-funded when DARPA priorities shifted post-9/11 and it all just kinda evaporated.

re: the moon - I honestly forget how that part was supposed to work....

yeah, those came a little later, but 2000 was the first year ICANN was ready to accept proposals for TLDs beyond the original 7. They made a call for innovative new uses of the domain system. My colleagues proposed .geo, ICANN went with .biz, .info, .name, .pro, .aero, .coop, and .museum.

Full list of proposals that year here: http://archive.icann.org/en/tlds/app-index.htm

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I worked with some guys who put together an incredible proposal to ICANN for a new .geo TLD: http://www.ai.sri.com/dotgeo/

The proposal was not accepted, but .aero and .museum were, and we all now how those have since utterly revolutionized the internet.

Why I Hate your Strawman Article

how about: "All right you entitled cunts, we made the Android version you begged for, now leave us alone."