The first issue was 1.99, with subsequent issues being sold for 5.99. In 2001 they began to publish a weekly magazine which included a 3.5” floppy disk containing a portion of the Google Earth database. What you probably didn’t know is that Google originally intended Earth to be a totally offline program.
Have you ever wanted to use Google Earth offline? Did you then think, hang on, how big is it in terms of data size and will it fit on my USB stick that I keep on my key-ring?įirstly, no, it won’t fit on your USB stick as Google Earth is approximately 70TB, that’s seventy terabytes or 70,000 gigabytes which sounds like quite a lot, but as we all know, it’s still only about half a Petabit!