From the “I didn’t post this when it was current” files is an article from Stories of Apple, titled Ten years ago: here comes Mac OS X Server. On January 5, 1999, Apple announced Mac OS X Server.
I had access to a Macintosh Server G4 running Mac OS X Server 1.2. I recall being pretty baffled by it at the time, especially when the setup assistant wanted to configure an entire network routed by the server. The OS looked like a darker version of classic Mac OS, but was very different in every other respect from that OS I'd become so comfortable with. The filesystem layout was foreign. The administration tools were Web-based, and relatively poor (to my thinking) compared to AppleShare IP 6’s. However, there was the sense that this new system was the future, and that Mac OS X Server 1.0 and 1.2 were the gateways to it. I wanted to know more.
And my, how far we’ve all come in a decade.
[Via Eric Z.]