3G Internet access feels in many ways like a time-tunnel to the first times I connected to the Internet. Only then it was only a FirstClass BBS and emails were sent to and collected from the ‘real Internet’ only twice a day. If I remember correctly.

My first run in with Netscape was not a happy one, largely due to my otherwise quite nice but visually handicapped Mac SE/30. Blazing fast (for the time), but only black and white, which meant that half of the Internet was dark for me. And thanks to these 17 pages I was forced to look at the source codes more closely.

Back to now. 3G Modem Access, troubles logging, bad images. Very much like a time machine. Another side-effect of this provider-side compressing is, that it literary takes the gloss off all the images; and produces very nice visual artefacts, which I thought went extict quite some time ago.

But of course my first reaction was, that Google was celebrating their 10th birthday by turning the time back on their logotype. But I guess that’s no it.

Because standard Map Dowsing is soooooo 20th. Welcome to the 21st century, welcome to Google Maps Dowsing.

Map Dowsing works on the assumption, that a pendulum (or any other swinging object) can respond to questions in the mind of the dowsing with binary (that is: Yes/No) answers. So once can – for example – ask, whether above a certain location underground freshwater is located, and the pendulum will present it’s answer by the direction of it’s swinging movements.

Google seems to have all the answers, which are globally asked; it’s seems a logical step, that Google Maps must also be able to answer our questions.

Somehow Google persitanly believes I am a virus.