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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
artnacrea@mastodon.ie ("Andy Linton :tinoflag: ✅") wrote:
In 1989 there was an Internet gateway at
the University of Waikato which connected at a whopping 9600 bps to
the University of Hawaii but no TCP/IP connectivity from elsewhere in
the country. It was possible to connect to the gateway using other
networks like DSIRnet, DecNet, X.25 and the UUCP suite. It was clunky
and frustrating.
Three of us, Jonathan, Mark Davies and I, took it upon ourselves to
fix that for VUW Computer Science. Our big problem was we literally
had no budget for this!