History of the FrontPage Personal Web Server 3. May 2001 Bob FrontPage Comments (0) A Short History of Windows Personal Web Servers 1994 - Bob Denny makes the first NCSA-based web server for Windows: 1995 - Vermeer makes the FrontPage 1.0 Personal Web Server: 1995 - Vermeer also licenses FrontPage to FTP software, which re-brands the Personal Web Server: 1996 - Microsoft releases the FrontPage 1.1 Personal Web Server: 1997 - Microsoft releases the FrontPage 97 Personal Web Server: 1998 - Microsoft releases the FrontPage 98 Personal Web Server: 2000 - Microsoft releases FrontPage 2000 and ceases making a FrontPage Personal Web Server.