On: I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and N...

[dullgiulio]

"WWW.MICROSOFT.COM is running Microsoft's Windows NT Server 3.5 and EMWAC's HTTPS"

EMWAC supported TLS 1.2 already back then. Amazing!

[ChrisSD → dullgiulio]

Ha, well it is a recreation and obviously not the original. They didn't have the original code so they had to work out how it was made. There's a readme which explains the process: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/readme.html

[voltagex_ → ChrisSD]

I get infinite redirects to profile.microsoft.com for that link if I load it in a browser with live.com cookies. Kinda sad, really.

[jwilk → dullgiulio]

I guess HTTPS stood for HTTP Server.