MapQuest and Other Internet Zombies
Some early-internet household names are still going. Amongst them is a familiar face I didn’t think still existed: MapQuest, still used by a surprising amount of people today:
More than 17 million Americans regularly use MapQuest, one of the first digital mapping websites that was long ago overtaken by Google and Apple, according to data from the research firm Comscore.
What reminded me of MapQuest the other day: The Azure-Maps tiles that GitHub now uses to display GeoJSON files. Add a button on each side of the map to navigate towards north, east, south or west, and it will look like a MapQuest map from 2002.