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

[John Glendenning]

Ahhh the old days of Trumpet Winsock, Netscape and Terminal.. Back then it
was a three horse dial up race between Ozemail, OnAustralia/MSN/Bigpond and
Microplex in the retail channel selling access cards.

Sean Howard gave me a payrise in the lift in my first week there (employee
23), an amazing experience!  Although they didn't obviously invent the
Internet Ozemail was a huge influencer in the development of the net.

 I'm neither pro or ante Abbott but i know that Turnbull and Howard were
definitely pioneers in Australia's internet industry..

Just my 10c worth

John Glendenning

On Friday, June 28, 2013, Matt Perkins wrote:

> 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.
>
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