[LINK] 20th anniversary of Australian Intrnet

[Stilgherrian]

Gentle Linkers, or at least the old-fart ones,

Someone's just said AARNet is claiming 26 November 2009 as the 20th  
anniversary of the Internet in Australia.

Yet Wikipedia says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Australia#Early_Days

Australia was connected to the internet on September 3, 1983 when  
Darwin established a connection to the University of California in  
Berkeley, California and connecting via a UUCP dial-up using an early  
version of Rick Adams Slip (Serial Line Internet Protocol). This  
connection was maintained privately until the CSIRO took over the  
maintenance and costs of the weekly UUCP SLIP calls. Prior to the  
connection of the greater internet, there existed an IP-based network  
linking academic institutions within Australia known as ACSNet, using  
the top level domain .oz. When Australia was connected to the  
internet, this domain was moved under .au to become .oz.au and exists  
today.

The first permanent circuit connecting AARNet to ARPANet using TCP/IUP  
over X.25 was established in May 1989. It linked the University of  
Melbourne with the University of Hawaii via a 2400 bps (bits per  
second) satellite connection. Later upgraded to 56 kbit/s (kilobits  
per second) and then 256 kbit/s, at a time which the US end-point was  
moved to San Jose at a NASA facility.


Can anyone provide clarification of those 1989 events?

Stil


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