[AusNOG] Happy 20th Birthday Australian Internet

[Bevan Slattery]

Geoff and crew,

Congrats to all those involved in this monumental occasion.  Certainly
must have been exciting to have been there from the outset and see how
far things have come in 20 years.  Truly extraordinary.

Someone in the office joked that there should be a 20th anniversary
cardigan.  I say to show our support and to recognise this important
milestone the first day at AUSNOG should be cardigan day.  Who's in?!  A
little fun to remember how far we've come in the last 20 years.

[b] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net 
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Geoff Huston
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:27 PM
> To: AusNOG
> Subject: [AusNOG] Happy 20th Birthday Australian Internet
> 
> 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
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