The first game changer for me was that all the other maps, you had to click up, down, left and right to get anywhere on the map. With Google Maps you could(can) just drag around. All the others were web 1.0 and Google Maps was web 2.0. And it was lightning fast! I remember thinking it was magic, when everything else was so bad to use in comparison.
Google Maps in the era before smartphones really pulled ahead with Street View. That might’ve been their first real game-changing innovation.
The first game changer for me was that all the other maps, you had to click up, down, left and right to get anywhere on the map. With Google Maps you could(can) just drag around. All the others were web 1.0 and Google Maps was web 2.0. And it was lightning fast! I remember thinking it was magic, when everything else was so bad to use in comparison.