The internet is currently driving to Canada via Google Maps, and I’m along for the ride.
This is Internet Roadtrip, the next browser-based creation from Infinite Craft developer Neal Agarwal, which launched last week and has since picked up momentum.
1610 so-called “drivers” are currently online, traversing the highways of New England via images from Google Streetview that update every 10 seconds. Just as with internet phenomenon Twitch Plays Pokémon, viewers can collectively vote to determine which direction the car heads next.
Internet Roadtrip launched with its car initially placed upon the streets of Boston – there’s a handy map to show the virtual vehicle’s full journey to date – but after a brief foray to the city’s southern suburbs it has been driven north ever since.
Eight days later and Internet Roadtrip is now enjoying a slow drive north through the picturesque state of Maine, and there’s currently discussion in its chat feed about stopping off at the tourist hotspot of Bar Harbor (which, to be fair, is lovely this time of year).
In a brilliant turn of events, Internet Roadtrip’s journey through Maine has caught the attention of a local student-run radio station (WBOR), which spent some time curating songs to be picked up on the in-game FM radio.
A radio station in Maine (WBOR) is currently curating songs for us in the in-game radio
— Neal Agarwal (@neal.fun) May 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Just as with Twitch Plays Pokémon, there’s a fun community building in the chat – and a general consensus that the vehicle is headed north of the US border to Canada. Will it get there? And where will it go next? I’ll be keeping an eye.
For now, viewers are having fun remarking on some of the grandiose place names Maine features for some of its tiny rural towns. Travelling from state capital Augusta up to the border you can pass through Calais, Cambridge, China, Denmark, Lebanon, Madrid, Mexico and Moscow. As I write this, Internet Roadtrip is currently in South China, Maine.
“What a pleasure to be able to peer into others’ imaginations like this,” Christian Donlan wrote of Agarwhal’s brilliant creation Infinite Craft upon its launch last year. “It really does feel like a chance to see how your friends’ brains truly work.”
