"first" computer on the internet

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Fri Jul 18 17:35:51 CDT 2008


Dan Gahlinger wrote:
> no, I didn't misunderstand. perhaps it was the last one Einar had. But it was what he created Email on.
> Check the Wiki for him.

You've been sold a bill of goods.  Einar didn't "create email", and 
certainly not on a Sun workstation.  Internet email was created in 1971 
by Ray Tomlinson:

http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html

Sum Microsystems wasn't even *founded* until 1982, so there's no way 
that a Sun product was involved in the original creation of email.

Eric



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