A little known trivia: Apache Hadoop (and the multi-billion dollar open source big-data ecosystem it spawned) was worked upon at first at Internet Archive [0].

A little known trivia: Apache Hadoop (and the multi-billion dollar open source big-data ecosystem it spawned) was worked upon at first at Internet Archive [0]. Speaking of billions: According to Kahle, Alexa Internet's compute infrastructure informed Amazon's take on IaaS (AWS) [1]. Another perhaps lost nugget is Amazon once funded (either in part or in full) the development of the Wayback Machine, Internet Archive's most impactful product. In addition, till date (if I'm not mistaken) Amazon continues to donate data it fetches from Alexa Toolbar installations to the Wayback Machine. [0] https://archive.is/Le3id https://archive.is/Le3id [1] https://archive.is/EnzHq https://archive.is/EnzHq