[ttul]

Unrelated: During the dot-com boom, there was a company called nCompass Labs that developed one of the first content management systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCompass_Labs_Inc). Microsoft bought them in 2001. Their product was, "a plug-in for hosting ActiveX controls in Netscape Navigator named ScriptActive." ActiveX itself was a novelty, using C++ templates to define reusable and _downloadable_ web components.

All of this crap was happily replaced with JavaScript frameworks in later years. Yes, back in the early-2000s, your browser might literally download executable code just to render a custom button.

[adiraja]

It now makes sense that when we tested the domain ncompass.com it took us to a Microsoft home page, which is why we're ncompass.tech :)

[ttul]

That’s hilarious. I bet if you reach out to Microsoft, they will give you that domain. There’s no way they’re using the trademark anymore.