"first" computer on the internet

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Tony Mori wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" 
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> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 1:15 PM
> Subject: Re: "first" computer on the internet
> 
> 
>> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, 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.
>>
>> Compuserve started in 1969!
>> When internet access started becoming popular, like AOHell, it even tried
>> to compete with the internet for a while, with forums, etc.
>> Now it is owned by AOL?
>>
>> Remember when Netcom, etc. put their own wrappers around internet 
>> content?
>>
>> Remember Prodigy?
> 
> Heh - Prodigy, the Source, CompuServe, BRS After Dark, there were a TON 
> of them...
> I remember starting out on CompuServe in 1982 or so - 76576,2064 - I 
> guess I will NEVER forget it!
> 300 baud on a Tandy CoCo2 (which I STILL have...).
> 
> 
> As I recall, I *LEFT* AOL in about 1993/1994 - my original username was 
> PowerTrip  :)
> 
> AOL, as I recall, also rolled-in the PC-Link system that Radio 
> Shack/Tandy included with all their PC's.
> 
> REAL old-timers will remember that there was even an AOL client for the 
> Apple ][GS!
> 

And what was the first operating system to have builtin support for 
internet access?  Did Windows for Workgroups have this or was that just LAN 
networking?  OS/2 Warp had dial up internet access for IBM's ISP as well as 
a SLIP dialer for other ISPs, when released in 1994, but not a full TCP/IP 
stack until Warp Connect in 1995.  I assume Unix, Linux, AppleOS or AmigaOS 
must have had this prior to that?  I remember all those damn AOL floppy 
disks for all the windows users.  FORMAT A: was a good use for them.

Mark