[AusNOG] Happy 20th Birthday Australian Internet

[Skeeve Stevens]

You has 2400 baud?!  When I was a boy we could whistle 300 baud!

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-
> bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of ComKal Admin
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 June 2009 9:03 PM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Happy 20th Birthday Australian Internet
>
> 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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