"first" computer on the internet

[Tony Mori]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" 
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Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: "first" computer on the internet


> 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.

Still have the # for NSI memorized: 703-742-4777

Sad, huh?