[AusNOG] Happy 20th Birthday Australian Internet

[Geoff Huston]

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