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October 16th, 2008 by Niels Horn in , , , |

In the beginning there was…
CTSS, the Compatible Time-Sharing System, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computation Center and first demonstrated in 1961. It had some interesting features like:

inter-user messaging (what we would call 'e-mail' nowadays)
a program called RUNCOM, that could execute several commands put together in a file - like modern-day shell scripts
RUNOFF, [...]