Terraserver was definitely one of those “Wow!” moments of the early web. Lots of detail on the architecture, in a paper with Jim Gray as a co-author: https://

Terraserver was definitely one of those “Wow!” moments of the early web. Lots of detail on the architecture, in a paper with Jim Gray as a co-author: https://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/msr_tr_99_29_terraserver.pdf https://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/msr_tr_99_29_terras... One of the hottest applications on the Internet of the time, and they hosted it on 8 servers!