When Hurley visits Leonard Sims to find out the origins of “the numbers”, Leonard tells him that he got them from a man call Sam Toomy, who’s in Australia. We then find out that Leonard and Sam were stationed together at a listening post in the Pacific when they picked up a transmission that was repeating the numbers over and over again and that it was about 16 years ago (presumably before Rousseau changed the transmission).
Box company owner
We find out that Hurley is “now the proud owner of a box company”, just so happens this is the same “box company” that Locke worked for.
The Donkey Wheel