Not just a tool for the terminally nosey, Google Street View also allows nostalgic web users to travel back to more innocent, happier times – i.e. the heady pre-recession days of Summer 2008 when the photos were taken, and when Zavvi, the Pier and Woolworths still ruled the high street.
Archive > June 2009
Funny Old Web: “Lest they make Wikipedia appear idiosyncratic”
From the world’s shortest street (2.06m – the aptly named Ebenezer Place in Caithness) to unmissable ‘eccentric tourist attractions’ like the Cardrona Bra Fence, NZ or the Icelandic Phallological Museum, the Wikipedia unusual articles page is a treasure trove of things you might find ‘a bit odd’. Who’d have thought Michigan has its own type [...]