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What did yahoo and AOL contribute?



Hadoop, AOLserver, early support for Mozilla


Yahoo had YUI which fell out of fashion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUI_Library


Yahoo released their geographic data catalogue under open license and it still lives on as https://whosonfirst.org/

Afaik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_ZooKeeper started at Yahoo

https://vespa.ai/ was Yahoo's search engine for news and other content product, now spinned off (https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/04/yahoo-spins-out-vespa-its-...)


Apache Traffic Server, AOLserver (no idea why I used this a long time ago)


AOLServer was interesting, yeah. A useful counterpoint to Netscape Application Server, and quite influential over mod_perl and PHP.


yahoo pipes




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