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Re:The predecessor to Google Earth was clumsy, yet powerful by twoodfin on Friday September 24, 2021 @07:57PM (#28649103)
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_terras...

One of the hottest applications on the Internet of the time, and they hosted it on 8 servers!

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