The very first StreetView was a relatively slow-paced one-two hour tape with Larry, Marissa, Schwim (I think) and a fourth (?) person driving around town in 2000 or 2001. Larry then took the tape to Stanford and a while later the project got funded by Google. Source: I saw the footage years ago. If the project hadn't became what it became, the VHS video would have been a truly unremarkable one like millions of others before and after it.