ACS was also the roots of OpenACS, which added PostgreSQL as a database option and gave the system a fully open-source stack.

[1] ArsDigita was founded by Philip Greenspun, Tracy Adams, Ben Adida, Eve Andersson, Olin Shivers, Aurelius Prochazka, and Jin Choi.

[6] Potential recruits were required to submit solutions to a handful of problem sets used in an Internet application development course at MIT.

That site exists to carry on the school's mission of supplying free education, and streams ~150GB/month of lectures to thousands of people around the world.

[7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Former instructor Holly Yanco became a University of Massachusetts Lowell computer science professor and was named a 2013 Woman to Watch.

The weight of payroll and offices in Cambridge, Berkeley, California, Washington D.C., and Ann Arbor, Michigan soon overwhelmed the company.