{"id":83,"date":"2009-01-25T08:57:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T08:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.danplanet.com\/wordpress\/?p=83"},"modified":"2009-01-25T08:57:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T08:57:04","slug":"a-year-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danplanet.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/25\/a-year-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"A year ago today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago today (January 25th, 200<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danplanet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/wordpress-grey-opaque-master\/images\/smilies\/icon_cool.gif\" alt=\"Smilie: 8)\" title=\"Smilie: 8)\" \/>, I released the first beta version of D-RATS.&nbsp; It was version 0.1.1 and was posted for early testing with my local ARES group.&nbsp; I had been working on the code for about a week at that time and had just gotten enough working (about 1,900 lines of code) that I felt it was worth testing.&nbsp; Soon after that, I released 0.1.2, which I considered the first non-beta version.&nbsp; 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