[AusNOG] Blast from the past - 1994 connect.com.au brochure

[Serge Burjak]

We didn’t have Google, we had Archie back then…


> On 13 Nov 2014, at 11:22, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net> wrote:
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> And the scary thing is, that's not a 'bad' price for back then.. I was paying $400/month to Netconnect for 14.4k dialup at that time.  Then I discovered TID plus exchange-based diversions, and did a two-hop dialup bouncing through an EBD in harcourt, to get to Bendigo.   Dropped my dialup costs to ~$200/month!
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> On 13 November 2014 12:14, Ivan Jukic <ijukic13 at gmail.com <mailto:ijukic13 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> $5,500.00 p/a for 14.4kbps!!!  My Commodore64 it going to be humming on the World Wide Web
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> On 13 November 2014 12:11, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet at akcin.net <mailto:mehmet at akcin.net>> wrote:
> $300 for DNS. sweet
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> Mehmet 
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> On Nov 12, 2014, at 3:09 PM, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net <mailto:rendrag at rendrag.net>> wrote:
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>> Ohhh man, that brings back memories - The twice a day UUCP sync to warrane - and I used to think that was awesome compared to the delivery speed on fidonet. 
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>> Imagine how lost todays generation would be if they got their emails in twice a day bursts, or had to wait a few days for international emails!
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>> On 13 November 2014 12:02, Mark Delany <g2x at juliet.emu.st <mailto:g2x at juliet.emu.st>> wrote:
>> Found this while cleaning out some old files. Wasn't sure about
>> inlining images on this list so here are some links.
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>> http://images.emu.st/1496a427-6acf-11e4-a2a3-00163e12230c/connect-com-au0.jpg <http://images.emu.st/1496a427-6acf-11e4-a2a3-00163e12230c/connect-com-au0.jpg>
>> http://images.emu.st/1496a427-6acf-11e4-a2a3-00163e12230c/connect-com-au1.jpg <http://images.emu.st/1496a427-6acf-11e4-a2a3-00163e12230c/connect-com-au1.jpg>
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>> Mark.
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>> Damien Gardner Jnr
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>> We danced among the lightning bolts,
>>  and tore the world asunder
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> We danced among the lightning bolts,
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