[AusNOG] Happy 20th Birthday Australian Internet

ComKal Admin admin at comkal.com.au
Tue Jun 23 21:03:13 EST 2009


Hi Geoff,

> 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.

Now you are making me feel old......

>   I think thats a pretty impressive record, and worth noting!

Very impressive and so much nicer that the old Compuserv 2400 baud
modem days :o)

Cheers
Ian Manners
ComKal Networks Australia




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