A brief history of Microsoft on the web
Nostalgia, nostalgia :-) Read this fascinating article about Microsoft.com from the very beginning written in 2000!
"...Microsoft legend says that this machine once lived under the desk of the site's first official administrator, Mark Ingalls, but like most legends that's only half true. A staging server for microsoft.com was actually housed beneath his desk, and it was relocated because too often Ingalls reached down and turned off the wrong machine by mistake. ..."
via Inside Microsoft