[CompSci87]

Sounds bogus to me. Intra-computer email on timesharing systems existed long before 1976. Maybe 1976 could have been the date of some kind of internet email first, but why would they go to Zot's to do whatever it was? And how did they get online from Zot's beer garden anyway? Did they borrow Zot's phone line and run a long cable out to the beer garden to hook up their dial-up terminal?

[CompSci87]

Sounds bogus to me. Intra-computer email on timesharing systems existed long before 1976. Maybe 1976 could have been the date of some kind of internet email first, but why would they go to Zot's to do whatever it was? And how did they get online from Zot's beer garden anyway? Did they borrow Zot's phone line and run a long cable out to the beer garden to hook up their dial-up terminal?