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

[Chris Barnes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TptIs0k-spg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

a Clarke and Dawe parody of Turnbull and Abbott on the topic of the NBN.
goes for a little over 2 and a half mins..

those of you who watch Clarke and Dawe have probably already seen it so
apologies in advance.
 On 28/06/2013 8:42 PM, "Chris Chaundy" <chris.chaundy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't often post here but there are time when I have to speak out!
>
> There is some 'discussion' as to whether Microplex or connect.com.au were
> the first commercial *IP* providers in Australia (circa 1992/1993) - as
> distinct from email providers prior to this (DIALix and Pegasus - see
> wikipedia) - and Labtam (aka Access One) came soon after, but the academic
> sector through AARNet was there much earlier (1990).  Ozemail was not the
> pioneer here, and with all respect, Malcolm Turnbull was not involved until
> 1994 (but he and Howard sure made some money...), and he no more 'invented'
> the Internet than Al Gore did!
>
> I should know some history here because I was on the AARNet Technical
> Committee and network coordinator for the operation of the AARNet
> International, national and Victorian hubs during the early 90's at the
> University of Melbourne, starting with 48Kbps links around the state and
> the country, and a 56K international link (grand days when the 48K links
> were upgraded to Megalinks with Saturn modems and the internal link went up
> to 256K and then 768K around this time).  Of course, Robert Elz along with
> Geoff Huston and Peter Elford were the key drivers for much of the original
> impetus.
>
> See http://www.aarnet.edu.au/about-us/publications/aarnet-book for the
> true history (not rewritten!)...
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:09 PM, John Glendenning <glendenning.j at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> http://www.tonyabbott.com.au/**LatestNews/Speeches/tabid/88/**
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>>>
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