I worked on a couple of public facing SharePoint 2010 sites for large, well known companies before while it was in RC and immediately after - MS had a big marke

I worked on a couple of public facing SharePoint 2010 sites for large, well known companies before while it was in RC and immediately after - MS had a big marketing push to get people to build more than Intranet portals on it at the time. It seems like that died off entirely once Office 365 came around, and it was never a good idea in the first place, but it was definitely a thing.