"first" computer on the internet

[Chuck Guzis]

On 20 Jul 2008 at 12:13, Sean Conner wrote:

>   Depends upon the service.  AOL with USENET and email in 1993.
> Compuserve probably a bit before that.  Heck,  still remember the
> Trumpet IP stack for Windows. 

I may still have the diskettes from my "internet Starter Kit" from 
around then with NCSA Mosaic, Trumpet and (IIRC) Eudora.  Web site 
hosting back then was pretty rough if you had to go through a 
commercial ISP to do it.  Does anyone remember how much of a hassle 
it was to transfer hosting on a domain?  Fill out a form, mail or FAX 
it (Network Solutions obviously didn't trust email), sometimes 
furnishing a copy of ID in case you had an uncooperative ISP.   And 
because there weren't a lot of hosting services (and competition), 
there could be some real a**holes to deal with.

But that was only because I was coming off of Compuserve--and I'd 
been sending and receiving Usenet email there since about 1989.  If 
you were a Microsoft developer back then, CIS was almost a necessity--
it was the only way to get any sort of a timely answer to a question 
from Bill's boys.  When Windows 3.0 deployed VxDs, CIS was the 
easiest way to get your VxD ID from Microsoft.

Lynx dates from about 1993, doesn't it?

Cheers,
Chuck