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

[Chris Chaundy]

But we only ever ran DECnet Phase IV.

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On 28/06/2013, at 22:47, Mark Prior <mrp at mrp.net> wrote:

> 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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