[LINK] RFC: The Web in Oz, 1992-94

[Tom Worthington]

On 16/12/11 09:57, Roger Clarke wrote:

> More like this please everyone!  ...

Bumped into Michela Ledwidge at the film and TV industry christmas party 
in Sydney on Saturday. Michela was webmaster at the National Library of 
Australia in the mid 1990s and claims to have had the first website in 
NSW, so would be worth talking to about web history: 
http://www.linkedin.com/in/michela

Also have a look in the USENET news archives, as that is where 
announcements of the era were posted: 
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&as_q=web+use+Australia&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&scoring=&lr=&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=1994&as_ugroup=&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&safe=off

You can plot the rise and fall of popularity of policies such as the 
Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile (GOSIP) via USENET 
items. A search of USENET for "GOSIP Australia OSI" shows:

1988:  2
1998:  2
1990:  5
1991: 10
1992: 20
1993: 22
1994: 30
1995: 17
1996:  5
1997:  7
1998:  2
1999:  1

ps: It was a good film and TV Christmas party: 
http://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/12/being-creative-in-sydney.html


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