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[โ€“] EnderMB 5 points 8 months ago

The infrastructure around sending small chunks of data around at that scale, at a time when people were sending larger files/messages around was interesting, enough so that even to this day "design twitter" is the canonical system design interview question.

They were also initially behind some cool things in the front-end space, like Bootstrap.