<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Best domain name ever.. a.au <div><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><b>From: </b>"Serge Burjak" <sburjak@systech.com.au><br><b>Cc: </b>ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, 13 November, 2014 12:24:38 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [AusNOG] Blast from the past - 1994 connect.com.au brochure<br><br>We didn’t have Google, we had Archie back then…<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote class=""><div class="">On 13 Nov 2014, at 11:22, Damien Gardner Jnr <<a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net" class="" target="_blank">rendrag@rendrag.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">And the scary thing is, that's not a 'bad' price for back then.. I was paying $400/month to Netconnect for 14.4k dialup at that time. Then I discovered TID plus exchange-based diversions, and did a two-hop dialup bouncing through an EBD in harcourt, to get to Bendigo. Dropped my dialup costs to ~$200/month!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 November 2014 12:14, Ivan Jukic<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:ijukic13@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">ijukic13@gmail.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class="">$5,500.00 p/a for 14.4kbps!!! My Commodore64 it going to be humming on the World Wide Web<br class=""></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 November 2014 12:11, Mehmet Akcin<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:mehmet@akcin.net" target="_blank" class="">mehmet@akcin.net</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">$300 for DNS. sweet<span class=""><font color="#888888" class=""><br class=""><br class="">Mehmet </font></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">On Nov 12, 2014, at 3:09 PM, Damien Gardner Jnr <<a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net" target="_blank" class="">rendrag@rendrag.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Ohhh man, that brings back memories - The twice a day UUCP sync to warrane - and I used to think that was awesome compared to the delivery speed on fidonet. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Imagine how lost todays generation would be if they got their emails in twice a day bursts, or had to wait a few days for international emails!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 November 2014 12:02, Mark Delany<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:g2x@juliet.emu.st" target="_blank" class="">g2x@juliet.emu.st</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;">Found this while cleaning out some old files. Wasn't sure about<br class="">inlining images on this list so here are some links.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://images.emu.st/1496a427-6acf-11e4-a2a3-00163e12230c/connect-com-au0.jpg" target="_blank" class="">http://images.emu.st/1496a427-6acf-11e4-a2a3-00163e12230c/connect-com-au0.jpg</a><br class=""><a href="http://images.emu.st/1496a427-6acf-11e4-a2a3-00163e12230c/connect-com-au1.jpg" target="_blank" class="">http://images.emu.st/1496a427-6acf-11e4-a2a3-00163e12230c/connect-com-au1.jpg</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Mark.<br class="">______________________________________________<br class=""></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><br><br>-- <br><div><span name="x"></span>Peter Tonoli < peter@medstv.unimelb.edu.au > +61-3-9231-2399 <br>IT Manager <br>The University of Melbourne - Eastern Hill Academic Centre, St. Vincent's Institute and O'Brien Institute <span name="x"></span><br></div></div></div></body></html>