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

[Damien Gardner Jnr]

Mmm, UUCP to connect, that brings back memories!  We (IEAust) used to 
bring up an ISDN connection on our Firstclass BBS server to Connect in 
Melbourne at 6am and 6pm to gateway through email and newsgroups.  I 
seem to remember having to blacklist the unimelb ftpmail gateway, as 
folks were running up our ISDN bill quite painfully!   Hmm, I note that 
warrane still resolves!

Wow, I just realised I've had the same email address for 20 years!  
Though I do use that email address as a spamtrap to feed our maia 
mailfilter now ;)

--DG

On 29/06/2013 4:16 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.
>
>
>
>>
>>             -- 
>>             /* Matt Perkins
>>                     Direct 1300 137 379 Spectrum Networks Ptd. Ltd.
>>                     Office 1300 133 299 matt at spectrum.com.au
>>                     Fax    1300 133 255 Level 6, 350 George Street
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>>             */
>>

-- 
Damien Gardner Jnr
VK2TDG/VK2DGJ. Dip EE. GradIEAust
rendrag at rendrag.net -  http://www.rendrag.net/
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  We ran to the sounds of thunder.
We danced among the lightning bolts,
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