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

[Paul Brooks]

On 28/06/2013 10:47 PM, Mark Prior 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.

I was trying to at least keep to the IP era - I had ACSnet running at Turbosoft with a
.oz.au domain, but I figured that didn't count as the Internet - and definitely didn't
want to repoen the 'what does it mean to be on the Internet' war, which is best had
after a few bottles of wine :-)

Paul.