[AusNOG] Happy 20th Birthday Australian Internet

[Darren Worley]

sounds very isp.au Sloppy Jo and Tamagotchi...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net 
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Bevan Slattery
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:44 PM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Happy 20th Birthday Australian Internet
> 
> Geoff and crew,
> 
> Congrats to all those involved in this monumental occasion.  
> Certainly must have been exciting to have been there from the 
> outset and see how far things have come in 20 years.  Truly 
> extraordinary.
> 
> Someone in the office joked that there should be a 20th 
> anniversary cardigan.  I say to show our support and to 
> recognise this important milestone the first day at AUSNOG 
> should be cardigan day.  Who's in?!  A little fun to remember 
> how far we've come in the last 20 years.
> 
> [b] 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net 
> > [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Geoff Huston
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:27 PM
> > To: AusNOG
> > Subject: [AusNOG] Happy 20th Birthday Australian Internet
> > 
> > On the night of the 23rd June 1989 Robert Elz of the University of 
> > Melbourne and Torben Neilsen of the University of Hawaii 
> completed the 
> > connection work that bought the Internet to Australia. It 
> was a 56kbps 
> > satellite circuit, and the Australian end used a Proteon 
> P4100 router.
> > 
> > Since that day we've evidently connected some 56.8% of the 
> population, 
> > or 12,073,852 Australians, to the Internet (according to user 
> > statistics published by the ITU-T)
> > 
> >   I think thats a pretty impressive record, and worth noting!
> > 
> >    Geoff
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