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Also, these sites had a play on hovering over a video thumbnail feature that youtube copied

• hackernewds 4y ago
  To be fair these seem like naturally intuitive and simple ideas
  • deleted 4y ago
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  • rudasn 4y ago
    ...once someone else had thought about it and executed them in an intuive manner
    • alenrozac 4y ago
      ...like Google Earth?
      • RF_Savage 4y ago
        Which was Googles version of NASA WorldWind?
        • SllX 4y ago
          Keyhole EarthViewer predates WorldWind and is what became Google Earth after Google acquired Keyhole.
          • RF_Savage 4y ago
            Cool, did not know that. Apparently the idea was less novel than I thought.
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      • mtmail 4y ago
        Terravision existed prior (https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-earth-sued-patent-infringement/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-earth-sued-patent-infr...)
        • SllX 4y ago
          They probably got it from Snow Crash. The oldest surviving globes of the known world date back to 1492 according to Wikipedia and the Greeks probably created their own variations a few millennia ago. Turtles, turtles, turtles! All the way down.
  • flappyeagle 4y ago
    you just described the definition of good design
  • tomger 4y ago
    ... like searching for text on the internet
  • hammock 4y ago
    It's actually patented by a porn site and YouTube pays them for the licensed use of it
    • groffee 4y ago
      Source? I don't see any possible way a thumbnail playing on hover is patentable.
      • hammock 4y ago
        Can’t find a source for my actual claim but here is a similar patent that Google claimed themselves: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9363579B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US9363579B2/en
  • mrguyorama 4y ago
    It was so natural and intuitive that Youtube's version STILL doesn't compare to how good, fast, seemless, and unintrusive it is done on the porn sites, years later.