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

[Mark Prior]

On 28/06/13 8:54 PM, Paul Brooks wrote:

> ...and the older days, when SLIP was the access protocol of choice,
> before PPP and DHCP were created (I wrote a commercial RARP and BOOTP
> server for automated IP address allocation, right before DHCP was
> documented), and NCSA Mosaic was threatening to overturn WAIS 'browsers'
> - before Netscape was created, and well before Mr Turnbull got involved
> in OZEmail.

And back further before AARNet when we used SLIP to support ACSNet 
sending email and files across Oz. What is the Internet anyway? :-) We 
originally had IP and DECnet running across AARNet after all.

Mark.


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