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

[Chris Chaundy]

Agreed.  Delving into the world of store & forward mail systems and bulletin boards is definitely straying off-topic.   And to Narelle, please don't mention AppleTalk and bridging in the one email - I probably won't sleep tonight now!

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On 29/06/2013, at 12:59 PM, Paul Brooks <pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au> wrote:

> 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.
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