"first" computer on the internet

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:42:59AM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote: Not that this thread needs much help, but in 1995 (hardly any sort of "first"), I used to serve a small number of text pages from the Amiga 3000 I took with me to Antarctica; it was accessible from all over the world as http://kumiss.mcmurdo.gov/ This sort of thing is no longer possible due to changes in rules backed up with a fairly tight firewall, but once upon a time, it was as easy as getting a name inserted in our nameserver and firing up something to serve pages. While it may have been commonplace in the early days of the web to "require" that a default web server live at www.whatever.com, it was merely uncommon, not forbidden, to also point whatever.com to the web server as well (which is now somewhat ordinary). -ethan -- Ethan Dicks, A-333-S Current South Pole Weather at 20-Jul-2008 at 19:40 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -69.7 F (-56.5 C) Windchill -103.4 F (-75.2 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 9.3 kts Grid 22 Barometer 672.7 mb (10905 ft) Ethan.Dicks at usap.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html