"first" computer on the internet

[Eric Smith]

Dan Gahlinger wrote:
> wasn't there a point in time around 1994-1996 where you *HAD* to use the "www" for domains, no matter what?

No.  It was always a convention for DNS entries, nothing more.  It was 
always possible for a site to use non-www names for web servers.

It may be more common now for web sites to have names without the www, 
or to have two names that resolve to the same server, one with and one 
without the www.

Eric