"first" computer on the internet

[Fred Cisin]

> 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?

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Eric Smith wrote:
> 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.

My old teaching [cob]-website was/is
http://merritt.edu/~fcisin
It has never been a www.
But, some demented browsers will connect even with an extraneous www.