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

[Chris Chaundy]

Well I actually connected Connect at UM and I was still working at the Uni
for another year or more before I jumped ship, and I don't recall them ever
having an SU link (I think this is where some confusion came from).  The
national network was all ISDN Microlink-based initially and the Sydney node
was in Cisco, but it was UUCP relays initially until they got the OK to
route IP over 'dedicated' connections (ISDN and 'permanent' dialup).

All of this was well before I joined Connect in early 1994 and around the
time that the Interconnect (domestic dialup) product was launched (I'm
often incorrectly spoken of as a founder - there were three active founders
and I was employee number 2).


On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Matt Perkins <matt at spectrum.com.au> wrote:

>  On 28/06/13 8:41 PM, Chris Chaundy wrote:
>
>
> There is some 'discussion' as to whether Microplex or connect.com.au were
> the first commercial *IP* providers in Australia (circa 1992/1993) - as
> distinct from email
>
> As I remember it when I connected Microplex Cisco AGS via a Telecom
> Microlink to a  T/A at 64k to the netblazer at .SU Microplex connected to
> port 2.  Port 1 was already allocated and connected to connect.com. (well
> the TA displayed CD)  So to my mind connect.com was first we were second.
> However we only provided shell accounts for the first few weeks before i
> wrote the  shell scripts on the SCO box that started slip sessions
> allocated IP's etc. So im a bit unsure who sold the commercial IP accounts
> first. It was within weeks of AARNET providing connections to the first as
> they called them then "Affiliates"
>
> Chris how long after you connected did you start selling.
>
> To my mind it was allays connect.com by a nose.
>
> Matt.
>
>
>
>
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