[usefulcat]

> something I think it was called VSS

Hmm, maybe Microsoft Visual Source Safe? I remember that. It was notorious for multiple reasons:

* Defaulted to requiring users to exclusively 'check out' files before modifying them. Meaning that if one person had checked out a file, no one else could edit that file until it was checked in again.

* Had a nasty habit of occasionally corrupting the database.

* Was rumored to be rarely or not at all used within Microsoft.

* Was so slow as to be nearly unusable if you weren't on the same LAN as the server. Not that a lot of people were working remotely back then (i.e. using a dial-up connection), but for those who were it was really quite bad.