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

[Matt Perkins]

Perhaps not if Tony get's in he might send his goones around to wipe out 
any trace of there being an internet connection before Malcolm virtually 
invented it. Perhaps he invented virtulization. Oh. now i have done it.

Matt



On 29/06/13 4:23 PM, Mark Prior wrote:
> 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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