[AusNOG] Is anyone else sick of Tony abbot claiming Malcolm Turbull invented the internet.

[Narelle]

Just for the record: it wasn't me, I didn't do it.

I didn't even watch, though I remember getting the memo... oh, then working
on building it out on my campus of UTS... I seem to recall some years later
we put up one of the first handful of web servers in the country.

LOL


Narelle


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Tony <td_miles at yahoo.com> wrote:

> SMH is running an article on it:
>
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/who-really-invented-the-internet-in-australia-20130628-2p1xy.html
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> Turbull invented the internet.
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> Is anyone else sick of Tony abbot claiming Malcolm Turbull invented the
> internet? Im sure im going to get a flame for being off topic. But it's
> starting to Sx! me up the wall.
>
> I clearly remember Malcolm Turnbul and Sean Howard's faces when they first
> saw the xylogics annex's with netcomm modems that Microplex had been using
> for months to provide slip and ppp when OzEmail provided an email only
> service and that was a good year after APANA was offering SLIP.
>
> Annoying... Any lurking jurno's after fact's if A quick google cant reveal
> the truth.
>
>
> http://www.tonyabbott.com.au/LatestNews/Speeches/tabid/88/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/9254/Address-to-the-Party-Room.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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