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

Mark Prior mrp at mrp.net
Fri Jun 28 23:38:03 EST 2013


Not that I am aware of. At Adelaide Uni we used ua.oz to avoid that 
confusion as we still had sendmail configs that supported the joy that 
was the Coloured Books with addresses like uk.ac.ucl and friends.

Mark.

On 28/06/13 11:02 PM, James Spenceley wrote:
> Or wasn't it au.oz
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 28/06/2013, at 23:03, James Spenceley <james at iroute.org> wrote:
>
>> oz.au those were the days
>>
>>
>>
>> On 28/06/2013, at 10:47 PM, 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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