"first" computer on the internet

On Sunday 20 July 2008 14:03, Joost van de Griek wrote: Heh. I *ran* a fido-internet gateway for a bit. And had a dialup shell account to the guy who was feeding the newsgroups as well. There were some appliance operators in those days, but everything I ran used config files that I had to edit and it was an interesting chore to get all the bits working with each other and then batch files and whatnot to tie it all together... Much more "technical" than most of my employment has been over the years, unfortunately. I was 1:270/615 when I stopped, and various other node numbers along the way. Also NC270, and moderated as many as eight echos at one time. Way too much of that stuff shows up in archives still when my last name gets punched into google. :-) -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin