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A few other data points: * Around 1993 as a 15yo I wrote (by post!) to AARNet asking about internet access, they kindly wrote back and referred me to a couple
by lukeh 3y ago
A few other data points:
* Around 1993 as a 15yo I wrote (by post!) to AARNet asking about internet access, they kindly wrote back and referred me to a couple of places: APANA and schoolsNET.
* APANA, the Australian Public Access Networking Association, was how 15yo me got UUCP, and eventually 2.4kbps SLIP, access circa 1993. It had all the good things small communities have and many people from that time went on to do very interesting things (e.g. Mark Delany).
* schoolsNET was an interesting ISP I ended up working for, bringing internet access to secondary education way before it was common in Australia.
* Also, don't forget Trumpet Winsock: before Windows 95, it was pretty much the way to connect Windows 3.x systems to IP networks.
* Tangentially related, but don't forget the first port of UNIX was done at the University of Wollongong. Driving past it the other day I was reminded of this.
- FireBeyond 3y ago1994, I was trying to get internet, and in a hurry, in Melbourne. Found an ISP in Box Hill, and got down there and paid them my first month in cash, and they walked me into the back office, opened up a cabinet, logged into a Linux console, and adduser'ed me, and then added me to a ppp group. Done.
- MrVandemar 3y ago> Also, don't forget Trumpet Winsock: before Windows 95, it was pretty much the way to connect Windows 3.x systems to IP networks. I was wondering around somewhere, it may have been Sydney or it may have been somewhere in Tasmania, in 2007 and was stunned to discover the Trumpet Winsock office. I took a photo.
- Smoosh 3y agoI also went through APANA for my primal internet access, specifically tyndale.apana.org.au. Wow, that was a long time ago.