"first" computer on the internet

[Sridhar Ayengar]

William Donzelli wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Wow, hair splitting EXTREME!
> 
> If you count the creation of the _I_nternet as the point at which the
>  academic networks went public in the early/mid 1990s, well that all 
> this NSFnet junk in my shop would probably qualify. One clock pulse 
> after the official ruling, then all these RS/6000s would then be 
> contenders to be "first". Depending, of course, on which machine got 
> their clock pulse first.
> 
> But I think the _I_nternet was being referred to with the big _I_
> well into the 1980s.

It was certainly available to me, and I was using it, before 1990.

Peace...  Sridhar