"first" computer on the internet

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Sean Conner wrote: Compuserve started in 1969! When internet access started becoming popular, like AOHell, it even tried to compete with the internet for a while, with forums, etc. Now it is owned by AOL? Remember when Netcom, etc. put their own wrappers around internet content? Remember Prodigy? There is certainly some validity to examining the historical point wherein public awareness crossed some specific or arbitrary threshold. For example, when was the first NON-COMPUTER oriented advertsing containing a URL? Who was the first politician to mention a website? Who decided to paint a URL on the fenders of UC campus police cars? When did Fry's finally get a website? But, looking at the time period when Dan first became aware of the internet is mutually incompatible with ANY sort of "first computer on the internet" type of claim to fame. There is some valid curiousity about the 1048576th computer on the internet, but museum interest?? -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com