Media Lab alum Michael Naimark, part of the original team who created the Aspen Movie Map, has written extensively about the project.

Imagine a virtual reality mapping environment designed to perfectly replicate a city’s streets and buildings—in 1978.

Created in the late 1970’s, the Aspen Movie Map was a groundbreaking interactive virtual tour of the real-world city of Aspen, Colorado.

MIT’s 1979 interactive map of Aspen, CO, anticipated one of Google’s hottest tools