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

[Mark Prior]

Someone should write this stuff down.

Mark.

On 29/06/13 3:46 PM, Chris Chaundy wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <http://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 <http://connect.com>. (well the TA displayed CD)  So to
>     my mind connect.com <http://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 <http://connect.com> by a nose.
>
>     Matt.
>
>
>
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