Looks like it was invented by Canonical for AWS/EC2 in 2006 (!). It was then gradually adopted by other clouds over the next 10 years or so (GCP adopted in 2013

Looks like it was invented by Canonical for AWS/EC2 in 2006 (!). It was then gradually adopted by other clouds over the next 10 years or so (GCP adopted in 2013, Azure a couple years later). Linode (Akamai Cloud now, I guess) adopted in 2023. Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ This got me to wondering when I first heard about HTML, HTTP, Linux, UTF-8, or any number of things, and from where, how so many of the things I've heard of once and never again, and the many important "standard" things I've never heard of.