[AusNOG] [ISOC-AU-mems] Happy Birthday WWW and AARNet

[Hugh Irvine]

That's my recollection as well.

cheers

Hugh


On 14 Mar 2009, at 09:58, Chris Chaundy wrote:

>
> I don't know if I have any diagrams or photos (no fancy digital  
> cameras in
> those days! :-) but I remember that we had two of the Telstra 'pie- 
> warmer'
> cabinets in the Computer Centre in the Richard Berry Building at the
> University of Melbourne with a Cisco AGS in the top of each rack  
> with 6-8
> Telstra DDS 48Kbps modems sitting underneath (each one took up half a
> shelf).  One cabinet was the national hub and the other was the  
> Victorian
> hub.  Initially the international router (a Proteon 4200 if I remember
> correctly) lived in the Computer Science part of the building and I  
> think it
> was 56Kbps at that stage.
>
> Cheers, Chris
>
> On 13/03/09 7:42 PM, "Narelle" <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just realised that AARNet turns 20 this year. It seems like  
>> yesterday.
>>
>> We'll have to dig up a network diagram... how much international
>> bandwidth did we have? I can't remember...
>>
>> Given that was the same year, and this the same month, Tim Berners- 
>> Lee
>> invented the WWW via his hypertext proposal:
>> http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
>>
>> Tim is heading over to Geneva to celebrate at CERN with ISOC:
>> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/headlines/20090312.shtml
>>
>> It seems such a nice coincidence to reflect on that now.
>>
>> Happy birthday AARNet, WWW
>>
>> and nice work folks. Keep up the good work.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> Narelle
>> VP ISOC-AU
>
>
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