[LINK] 20th anniversary of Australian Intrnet

[Tom Koltai]

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> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Stilgherrian
> Sent: Thursday, 12 November 2009 3:47 PM
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> Subject: [LINK] 20th anniversary of Australian Intrnet
> 
> 
> 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



>From Memory, NASA paid for the link for the first 18 months after which
time each country paid for it's own half link.

The justification for NASA was initially access to the NSW Parkes
Facility via TCP.



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