"first" computer on the internet

Diane Bruce db at db.net
Fri Jul 18 13:59:27 CDT 2008


On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:33:36PM -0400, 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

I remember having to sign a piece of paper so we could use the entire
"_I_nternet". How things have changed.

> --
> Will, ex william at ans.net
>

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