I had a worse experience. My first internship was doing web development in ColdFusion. Why that language? Because when the company was first starting, none of the funders wanted to learn Linux/Apache administration and CF ran on Windows.

Also, the front end development team did not have version control but shared code via a file server.

They were using SourceSafe back then. But any source control that isnt decentralised has the same problem. If the central server gets deleted so does all history