Re: [ga] Re: IANA Report on .au (Australia)

["Patrick Corliss" <patrick@quad.net.au>]

Hi Grégoire

On Sat, 01 Sep 2001 18:31:44 +0200, Grégoire Seither wrote:
> le 1/09/01 17:31, Alexander Svensson - < alexander@svensson.de > écrivait
:
>
> > Upon its establishment in 1986, the .au ccTLD was delegated to Robert
> > Elz, a network programmer at the University of Melbourne.
>
> 1986 ? Wow !!!! While we Froggies were still mucking aroung with 9600 bps
> BBS and modem to modem networks (Calvacom), the Ozzies already had their
> ccTLD.

I am on the Board of auDA but speak here in a personal capacity.

Actually I believe the date may even have been as early as 1984 !!
You may be interested in the following links:

http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/OzIHist.html

http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/LanceSep98.html


Best regards
Patrick Corliss


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