[LINK] Happy birthday .au

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:37 AM 5/06/2011, Tom Koltai wrote:

>I wont even describe the other routing protocol networks:
>EARN/BITNET, Janet, Berknet, Decnet and of couse FIDO.

No, please don't. I had to use a gateway to get from our BITNET 
server in Arizona to Monash to email with a friend on staff there 
back around 1989 or 1990. NOT pretty. But a great way to start to 
learn the fundamentals of networking. It was thrilling when the first 
message came through with the text from my friend: Come here Watson, 
I need you. I probably still have a copy of that message archived on 
a disk somewhere. Victorians will know Daniel Bowen from the Public 
Transport Users Association. He was an IT student at Monash at the 
time and helped my friend get his computer connected because having 
an email at that time at the university wasn't a given. And if anyone 
knows Daniel Carosone, he was mixed up in all that, too.

Jan



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