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As one can imagine, oil and gas companies find this type of technology useful as it can highlight unprospected areas that were once nearby what are now well known oil fields. As might be expected, commercial versions offer far more detail and control than the website referenced. I worked with this a few years back (no connection, just thought it might be of interest): https://www.paleogis.com/products/paleoglobe/

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If you track Cancun from 200 million years ago, it shows the Gulf of Mexico opening up as the Yucatan block rotates clockwise. The Florida platform stays pretty much stationary. This likely accounts for why there are no oil wells on the Florida platform south of the panhandle.

It's also potentially interesting for archaeologists searching for remains of ancient civilizations.

How could that be the case? The map for 66M years ago (predating the human fossil record) looks functionally identical.

http://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#66

What? The Atlantic Ocean is tiny, the Pacific Ocean is huge. The Arabian peninsula hasn't broken away from Africa, North and South America aren't even connected, India is a huge island in the middle of the ocean.

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