I remember doing something like it on the Macintosh when I was in the 6th form at school – going around the school, taking photos, scanning them, then making a Hypercard stack for the Mac so you could take a virtual tour. It was sort of inspired by seeing and using the Domesday system at the local library, except at a local level. Of course it was impractical to do anything other than a subset of the school – there was only so much you could get on a floppy disc.

It’s interesting that all the new stuff (like online shopping, Google Maps) had similar concepts in the 80s – the Domesday system was awesome back in the day, and we had some online shopping via Prestel. It’s just in the 80s it was ruinously expensive to do any of this!