I wrote and shared my first C# code in 1999. And since then, I have witnessed a newborn turn into a fully mature grownup powerful language. It took Microsoft 3 years to get the first stable and usable version of the language. Yes, there used to be alpha releases at that time. I got my hands on the C# compiler when it was released as an alpha version in Dec 1999.
It was 1999 when C# (pronounced C sharp) was introduced to the world by Microsoft as a new futuristic programming language, I was fortunate enough to be one of the early adopters of the language.
