"first" computer on the internet

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: "first" computer on the internet
>   From: Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com>
>   Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:18:34 -0700
>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>Mark wrote:
>> 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?
>
>It certainly wasn't any Microsoft operating system.  Microsoft was at 
>least ten years late to the party.
>
>If you define "internet access" as "having TCP/IP", it might have been 
>BSD 4.1a, which included the crufty BBN TCP/IP code, and was released in 
>1982.  ARPANET switched from NCP to TCP/IP on January 1, 1983 ("flag day").

I'm a bit surpirzed no one has mentioned UUCP.

Allison