[AusNOG] Is anyone else sick of Tony abbot claiming Malcolm Turbull invented the internet.

[David Hughes]

Nope, just oz.  bambi at bu.oz would have worked in some dark age of acsnet :-)  bambi at bond.edu.au was "new skool" when we went all Internet (i.e. about 1991)   

Damn, thanks James, I'm feeling rather old right now !


David
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On 28/06/2013, at 11:32 PM, James Spenceley <james at iroute.org> wrote:

> Or wasn't it au.oz
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 28/06/2013, at 23:03, James Spenceley <james at iroute.org> wrote:
> 
>> oz.au those were the days
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 28/06/2013, at 10:47 PM, Mark Prior <mrp at mrp.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 28/06/13 8:54 PM, Paul Brooks wrote:
>>> 
>>>> ...and the older days, when SLIP was the access protocol of choice,
>>>> before PPP and DHCP were created (I wrote a commercial RARP and BOOTP
>>>> server for automated IP address allocation, right before DHCP was
>>>> documented), and NCSA Mosaic was threatening to overturn WAIS 'browsers'
>>>> - before Netscape was created, and well before Mr Turnbull got involved
>>>> in OZEmail.
>>> 
>>> And back further before AARNet when we used SLIP to support ACSNet sending email and files across Oz. What is the Internet anyway? :-) We originally had IP and DECnet running across AARNet after all.
>>> 
>>> Mark.
>>> 
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