Xoc - 6:43 pm on Aug 13, 2002 (gmt 0)

What are we calling the Net here? When I connected to CompuServe in 1980, it wasn't hooked to anything else. My first connection to the actual Internet happened in 1988, when I used UseNet for the first time. On the other hand, if Brett actually touched ArpaNet, he was on the Internet in 1976, since ArpaNet became the Internet.

Maybe we should call it the first time that you used the Internet Protocol (IP), directly or indirectly? (Including sending email to an Internet @ address.)