20 Jul
2008
20 Jul
'08
2:58 p.m.
Subject: Re: "first" computer on the internet
From: Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:18:34 -0700
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Mark wrote:
I'm a bit surpirzed no one has mentioned UUCP.
Allison
And what was the first operating system to have
builtin support for
internet access? Did Windows for Workgroups have this or was that just
LAN networking?
It certainly wasn't any Microsoft operating system. Microsoft was at
least ten years late to the party.
If you define "internet access" as "having TCP/IP", it might have been
BSD 4.1a, which included the crufty BBN TCP/IP code, and was released in
1982. ARPANET switched from NCP to TCP/IP on January 1, 1983 ("flag day").