"first" computer on the internet

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> writes:

 Dan> no, I didn't misunderstand. perhaps it was the last one Einar
 Dan> had. But it was what he created Email on.  Check the Wiki for
 Dan> him.

 Dan> The internet didn't become a really public thing until around
 Dan> 1994.  Sure it existed in various forms, but when you talk about
 Dan> the "Internet" (Capital "I"), the public wasn't aware of it or
 Dan> using it until late 1994.   ...

If you're going to use fuzzy metrics like "public awareness" you can
prove anything you want.  What's your threshold?  1% of the public?
0.001% of the public?  Whose survey are you using?

When did Mosaic come out?  If you want to pick a point in time when
the Internet changed from a specialist tool to a worldwide utility,
that would be the one.  I forgot the year, but I'm sure it's well
before 1994.  And I remember looking into an "Information Superhighway
Onramp" as a product or service at that time, so clearly it was
emerging as a consumer utility then.

	 paul