It was sparked by a post on the Twitter account Fesshole, which asks followers to submit anonymous confessions - many of which are explicit. "I h

The relatives frozen in time on Google Street View

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2021-06-17 16:00:09

It was sparked by a post on the Twitter account Fesshole, which asks followers to submit anonymous confessions - many of which are explicit.

"I have literally hundreds of pics of my dad but the Google Street View is quite affecting, like he's still around," he wrote.

Another tweeter showed an image of a couple holding hands in the street - his parents, he said, who had died several years ago.

I can go back to 2009 and see my parents walking down the road holding hands. I lost them both 8 & 6 years ago. pic.twitter.com/0YmYROw81k

There is, however, a way to look back at previous incarnations - by tapping the clock icon on the top left-hand side of Google Maps (the feature does not appear on Google Earth), if it is there.

Karim Palant used this tool to find a former image of his late grandfather Charles Palant, taken from the street in 2015 and showing him leaning out of his window from his apartment in Paris to talk to his carer below.

Karim added that his grandfather was having computer lessons while aged in his 90s, but he doesn't believe he had seen Google Street View, and the family only became aware of the photograph after his death.