http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1081456,00.html
Seems a pretty big deal to me.
It was certainly not the “birth of the internet” as the article says. I had been online for over a year already and that was actually a re-connect after leaving school from 1991-1994.
I was actually sending bitnet messages all over the world in 1990-91.