Sunday, July 17, 2011
Row, row, row your boat
There are two places marked on the map below (with the usual Google map markers). What is the significance of the two places, and the major geographical feature you see in the map?
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Amazon.com’s first page rendering engine was called Obidos, named after the town on the banks of the Amazon. This was phased out and replaced with Gurupa, another town on the banks of the Amazon and seemingly ‘upstream’ :)