Google Maps hides nearly 20 years of Street View history, and it’s a time machine for your hometown

Street View usually shows a road the way it looked on the last drive-by, which could be months or years old. Most people never notice that Google kept the earlier captures, too. Tap See more dates inside Street View, and Google Maps opens a timeline of every published pass down that road, reaching back to 2007 in the places Google photographed first.