"first" computer on the internet

[John Floren]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> no, I didn't misunderstand. perhaps it was the last one Einar had. But it was what he created Email on.
> Check the Wiki for him.
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> The internet didn't become a really public thing until around 1994.
> Sure it existed in various forms, but when you talk about the "Internet" (Capital "I"), the public wasn't aware of it or using it until late 1994.
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> To give you some idea, the ISP I worked with in Sept 1994 had an ARIN user registration number 79.
> Yes, the 79th person to register with ARIN. That's pretty damn EARLY!
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> So enough with your stupid jokes and mockery, this isn't a scam or slight, it's the real thing, speaking from a public perspective anyhow.
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> Hey I was there in the mid to late 80's using NA-Net, etc as well, but that WASN'T the internet.
> And hey, I was sending "email" via university systems back in the mid to late 70's too, but that's not what we call "email" today.
> there wasn't TCP then, at least where I was (It was Dec-net and PAX).
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> BTW I helped WRITE TCP-mail, the predecessor to pine/elm, so I think I know a bit about what I'm talking about.
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> And yes, I know there was other stuff too, in the 80s, networking like Envoy, but that too, wasn't the Internet.
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> I think there are two aspects, the research network, NA-Net, Arpanet and so forth, and what we, the public now refer to as the Internet.
> Sure the worlds FIRST website was built 6 August 1991 but that's not when the public was aware of it.
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> So you can see, the 1990 release of the SLC is very much in-line with this time-line.
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> I was there, I lived through this, I helped the universities build their system for students so they could reserve research materials from the Canadian National Archives.
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> The "properly" public internet didn't really come into full view, I would say until sometime around 1996, perhaps to some, 1995, but really.
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> BTW I also built the FIRST, Canadian National backbone network link in March of 1994, and yes, really the first, in Canada.
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> So been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
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> That's why "first" was in quotes. I wasn't trying to skewer dates or make some big claim, but I still think it's an important piece of history.
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> So go ahead, continue making your immature little jokes about sneakers, if someone is serious on the list, drop me a note.
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> Dan.
>

Is this thing going to turn into your "OS/2 for the PDP-11" debacle
all over again?
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2008-January/253028.html

I'd swear we were being trolled.

John
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