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

James Spenceley james at iroute.org
Fri Jun 28 23:32:28 EST 2013


Or wasn't it au.oz

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On 28/06/2013, at 23:03, James Spenceley <james at iroute.org> wrote:

> oz.au those were the days
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> On 28/06/2013, at 10:47 PM, Mark Prior <mrp at mrp.net> wrote:
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>> On 28/06/13 8:54 PM, Paul Brooks wrote:
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>>> ...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.
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>> 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.
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>> Mark.
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