17 Jul
2008
17 Jul
'08
8:38 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> wrote:
I thought I had posted this, perhaps not.
Anyhow,
I have what's purported to be the "First" computer on the internet,
the one that joined the pieces together and I guess you could say "made" the
internet,
or conversely, the "last" node, as it were (depending how you count).
It's also the system where E-Mail was first created.
It's a Sun SLC workstation, owned by Einar Steffard.
I don't understand how this could possibly have been first, second,
third, fourth, or even 100,000th computer on the Internet? The
SPARCstation SLC was released in 1990, long after the ARPAnet had gone
away and TCP/IP had become well established as the protocol of the
Internet. Email had been around for almost 15 years by that time, as
well. Could you have misunderstood what it was used for?
-Seth