April 9, 1999 - the first production active directory domain ( www.youtube.com )
On April 9, 1999 the Domain Controllers for the redmond.corp.microsoft.com Windows NT4-based domain were upgraded to a pre-release version of Windows 2000 Server and thus became the world’s first production Active Directory domain:
Launched on 25 March 1995, The WikiWikiWeb is the first wiki, or user-editable website. ( en.wikipedia.org )
Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 ( arstechnica.com )
After 32 years, one of the ’Net’s oldest software archives is shutting down ( arstechnica.com )
January 10: Donald Knuth Born | This Day in History | Computer History Museum ( www.computerhistory.org )
RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed ( gizmodo.com )
The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploaded ( arstechnica.com )
The history of Vim ( pikuma.com )
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