Not web development per se, but Clos Networks[0] were originally designed for telephone systems and re-emerged in large datacenter networks[1]. [0] https://en.

Not web development per se, but Clos Networks[0] were originally designed for telephone systems and re-emerged in large datacenter networks[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clos_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clos_network [1] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43837.html http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43837.html