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

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Sat Jun 29 00:03:27 EST 2013


In message <9A1474B7-FD83-43E9-B3BB-FF7348D77D2E at iroute.org>, James Spenceley w
rites:
> Or wasn't it au.oz

No it was .oz on the ACSnet side and .oz.au on the Internet side
once it was gatewayed out.  We dmssyd.oz used to connect to munnari.oz
over csironet the bills for which hit my boss's csironet account.

I can remember getting my first net blocks in Oct 88 (a class B for
the division's Sydney offices and class C's for Canberra, Adelaide
and Perth offices, this was pre-CIDR) and running a slip link between
SU and NML (CSIRO) as well as other slip links between CSIRO sites.
Most of these became mircowave links eventually.

Mark

> 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 ha
> d IP and DECnet running across AARNet after all.
> >> 
> >> Mark.
> >> 
> >> 
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