The original version of Windy was highly inspired by the products from the Swiss company Meteoblue and another project called "Earth", which displayed animated wind particles on the globe. With completely rewritten open source codes from Earth and also  an agreement with Meteoblue to use some of their products at that time, Windyty was born (renamed Windy a few years later). Our goal is to keep Windy small and fast to be accessible in the most remote locations.