Look! Microsoft’s very first homepage.
Take a peek at Microsoft’s very first homepage. 
Thought I would share it for giggles. Can you believe that this was cutting edge when it debuted in 1993?
The first Microsoft Internet site was born in early 1993. Group Manager John Martin of Microsoft’s Corporate Network Systems group sought and received the charter to post Microsoft support resources, previously available only on a CompuServe forum, to a public FTP server. The site was named gowinnt.microsoft.com in honor of the keyword used to access the forum on CompuServe. It was later changed to ftp.microsoft.com, to better map with Internet naming conventions.
Read: A Brief History of Microsoft on The Web
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