"first" computer on the internet

[William Donzelli]

> 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...

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Will