Revealed: the whiteboard doodles that became Google Maps

By Stephen Hutcheon
Updated September 7 2014 - 10:08am, first published August 26 2014 - 6:16pm
Writing on the wall: Scribbles on a whiteboard made by Google Maps co-founder Noel Gordon as his start-up negotiated its sale to Google in 2004. Photo: Noel Gordon
Writing on the wall: Scribbles on a whiteboard made by Google Maps co-founder Noel Gordon as his start-up negotiated its sale to Google in 2004. Photo: Noel Gordon

The photograph, below, of seemingly random scribbles on a whiteboard is the thought bubble for what today is known as Google Maps.

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