"first" computer on the internet

[Jim Battle]

Dan Gahlinger wrote:
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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!

Wikipedia says:

"ARIN opened its doors for business on 22 December 1997[1] after 
incorporating on 18 April 1997"

> 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.

I don't think anybody has accused you of a scam, just of making claims 
that are provably false.

> 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).

TCP has been around since at least 1981.

> BTW I helped WRITE TCP-mail, the predecessor to pine/elm, so I think I know a bit about 
> what I'm talking about.

You are talking about clients, not protocols.  I have no doubt that 
people were writing new email clients in 1990 or whatever.  The original 
message sounded like you were claiming the email protocol was developed 
on a machine that wasn't available until many years after the protocol 
had already been in use.