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

[Paul Wallace]

In fact I reckon this thread is great in demonstrating the maturity of some members.

:-)







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From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Mark Prior
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 11:43 PM
To: Daniel Watson
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Is anyone else sick of Tony abbot claiming Malcolm Turbull invented the internet.

I wouldn't have thought so.

Mark.

On 28/06/13 11:05 PM, Daniel Watson wrote:
> Isnt this thread way off topic according to the rules of this mail group??
>
> D
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 28/06/2013, at 23:32, "James Spenceley" <james at iroute.org> 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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