# Name this website

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-website/847180>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 29, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-website/847180 "2020-01-29T19:19:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-website/847180/1 "2020-01-29T19:19:49Z")

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Many (Maybe 10) years ago I stumbled upon this website where:

People would post a picture. Sometimes this would be totally outside, sometimes out a window. Then people would try to figure out where (pretty much exactly) this place was on the earth. I remember this from time to time, and spend awhile googling and never come up with anything. Does this strike a bell for anyone?

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**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-website/847180/2 "2020-01-29T19:32:32Z")

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[Geoguesser?](https://geoguessr.com/)

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**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-website/847180/3 "2020-01-29T20:51:59Z")

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It ran off a bbs, with lots of different things going at once, and it was photos not google maps, but that is an interesting site.

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**Author:** ![Grave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@Grave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grave)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-website/847180/4 "2020-01-30T14:12:54Z")

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If it was a BBS, you are looking at 30 to 40 years ago.

There was an old door game called “Find Me” which meets your criteria except not being a website. Cannot find a link to it on Google but that is what you are describing.

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**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-website/847180/5 "2020-02-01T19:10:54Z")

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The modern equivalent of this might be the [r/whereisthis subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/whereisthis/).