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Starting in the late nineties, most middle sized and large companies have been using an intranet. When organizations first started using internet functionality inside the firewalls, this was mostly used as a way to inform workers using static webpages.
When Microsoft introduced SharePoint in 2001 it was not widely adopted. Those who did start using it often saw it as a place to store documents and do some lightweight collaboration. A common way to describe SharePoint at the time was as a ‘fileserver on steroids’.