[LINK] History of the Internet in NZ

[Roger Clarke]

Despite my work on the history of the Internet in Oz and WWW in Oz, I've
never actually looked at the NZ experience.

By means of that time-honoured search strategy, 'looking for something
else at the time', I've tripped over this very substantial history:

Newman K. (2008)  'Connecting the Clouds - The Internet in New Zealand'
 Commissioned by InternetNZ (the Internet Society of New Zealand Inc),
Activity Press, 2008, at https://www.nethistory.co.nz


Quote from Chapter 4:
https://www.nethistory.co.nz/Chapter_4_-_Nuclear_Free_Reforms/
(and search for <April>)
> In April 1989, a full 18 months after the Princeton meeting, the
analogue undersea link to Waikato went live. At the Waikato end was a
software-based gateway linking the various types of email, and a
translation gateway built from an innovative mix of the CSnet software
and code from the United Kingdom. ...

[ The rest of that para. is interesting if you're into techno-drama. ]


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