The game's World Domination mode allows players to battle across a virtual earth which is split into many sections/provinces.
On November 20, 1997, Microsoft released a popular offline virtual globe in the form of Encarta Virtual Globe 98, followed by Cosmi's 3D World Atlas in 1999.
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Google Earth, satellite & aerial photos dataset (including commercial DigitalGlobe images) with international road dataset, the first popular virtual globe along with NASA World Wind.
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The first widely publicized online virtual globes were NASA World Wind (released in mid-2004) and Google Earth (mid-2005).
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The use of virtual globe software was widely popularized by (and may have been first described in) Neal Stephenson's famous science fiction novel Snow Crash.
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