"first" computer on the internet

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. The internet didn't become a really public thing until around 1994. Sure it existed in various forms, but when you talk about the "Internet" (Capital "I"), the public wasn't aware of it or using it until late 1994. To give you some idea, the ISP I worked with in Sept 1994 had an ARIN user registration number 79. Yes, the 79th person to register with ARIN. That's pretty damn EARLY! So enough with your stupid jokes and mockery, this isn't a scam or slight, it's the real thing, speaking from a public perspective anyhow. Hey I was there in the mid to late 80's using NA-Net, etc as well, but that WASN'T the internet. And hey, I was sending "email" via university systems back in the mid to late 70's too, but that's not what we call "email" today. there wasn't TCP then, at least where I was (It was Dec-net and PAX). BTW I helped WRITE TCP-mail, the predecessor to pine/elm, so I think I know a bit about what I'm talking about. And yes, I know there was other stuff too, in the 80s, networking like Envoy, but that too, wasn't the Internet. I think there are two aspects, the research network, NA-Net, Arpanet and so forth, and what we, the public now refer to as the Internet. Sure the worlds FIRST website was built 6 August 1991 but that's not when the public was aware of it. So you can see, the 1990 release of the SLC is very much in-line with this time-line. I was there, I lived through this, I helped the universities build their system for students so they could reserve research materials from the Canadian National Archives. The "properly" public internet didn't really come into full view, I would say until sometime around 1996, perhaps to some, 1995, but really. BTW I also built the FIRST, Canadian National backbone network link in March of 1994, and yes, really the first, in Canada. So been there, done that, got the t-shirt. That's why "first" was in quotes. I wasn't trying to skewer dates or make some big claim, but I still think it's an important piece of history. So go ahead, continue making your immature little jokes about sneakers, if someone is serious on the list, drop me a note. Dan. _________________________________________________________________