<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I don't often post here but there are time when I have to speak out!<br><br>There is some 'discussion' as to whether Microplex or <a href="http://connect.com.au">connect.com.au</a> were the first commercial *IP* providers in Australia (circa 1992/1993) - as distinct from email providers prior to this (DIALix and Pegasus - see wikipedia) - and Labtam (aka Access One) came soon after, but the academic sector through AARNet was there much earlier (1990). Ozemail was not the pioneer here, and with all respect, Malcolm Turnbull was not involved until 1994 (but he and Howard sure made some money...), and he no more 'invented' the Internet than Al Gore did!<br>
<br></div>I should know some history here because I was on the AARNet Technical Committee and network coordinator for the operation of the AARNet International, national and Victorian hubs during the early 90's at the University of Melbourne, starting with 48Kbps links around the state and the country, and a 56K international link (grand days when the 48K links were upgraded to Megalinks with Saturn modems and the internal link went up to 256K and then 768K around this time). Of course, Robert Elz along with Geoff Huston and Peter Elford were the key drivers for much of the original impetus.<br>
<br></div>See <a href="http://www.aarnet.edu.au/about-us/publications/aarnet-book">http://www.aarnet.edu.au/about-us/publications/aarnet-book</a> for the true history (not rewritten!)...<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:09 PM, John Glendenning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glendenning.j@gmail.com" target="_blank">glendenning.j@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Ahhh the old days of Trumpet Winsock, Netscape and Terminal.. Back then it was a three horse dial up race between Ozemail, OnAustralia/MSN/Bigpond and Microplex in the retail channel selling access cards. <div><div><br></div>
Sean Howard gave me a payrise in the lift in my first week there (employee 23), an amazing experience! Although they didn't obviously invent the Internet Ozemail was a huge influencer in the development of the net.</div>
<div><br></div><div> I'm neither pro or ante Abbott but i know that Turnbull and Howard were definitely pioneers in Australia's internet industry..</div><div><div><br></div><div>Just my 10c worth <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span></span></font></span></div>
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<div><br></div></font></span><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">John Glendenning </font></span><div><div class="h5"><br><br>On Friday, June 28, 2013, Matt Perkins wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Is anyone else sick of Tony abbot claiming Malcolm Turbull invented the internet? Im sure im going to get a flame for being off topic. But it's starting to Sx! me up the wall.<br>
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I clearly remember Malcolm Turnbul and Sean Howard's faces when they first saw the xylogics annex's with netcomm modems that Microplex had been using for months to provide slip and ppp when OzEmail provided an email only service and that was a good year after APANA was offering SLIP.<br>
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Annoying... Any lurking jurno's after fact's if A quick google cant reveal the truth.<br>
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