"first" computer on the internet

[Sridhar Ayengar]

William Donzelli wrote:
>> Keep in mind that the email began* as an application
>> of the ARPAnet file transfer protocol.  Very soon
>> after the first nodes were hooked up in '69/'70,
>> people began using the file transfer capabilities
>> to leave notes for each other.  It didn't take long
>> at all before someone said, "hey, lets put together
>> an addressing and delivery mechanism" and you had
>> email.
> 
> Something the military had been doing for some years, already...

And PROFS came out in 1981.  I started using PROFS around 1987.

Peace...  Sridhar