On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Juha Saarinen wrote:
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Chris Hellberg wrote:
I've lost the origional email about the conference, but what I'd like to see next year is someone involved from the early days of the NZ interweb. Somone who flicked the switch on the 4K8 link to NZ, or who ran the origional NZ DNS or similar would be interesting - grey hair types preferred ;)
Ahhh... people like Mr Abley. Well, he's probably eligible for an OAP I don't think he means Mr Abley
He's talking about people at Waikato and others who ran Kawaihiko and Tuia Jon Houlker is a name that comes to mind. Rex Croft ran the .nz DNS. Last I heard he was somewhere in Australia. VUW and Waikato were the two places bringing in usenet news into the country. Usenet news feed (and the payment of it) is probably what limited some of the growth of the .nz DNS and kept things manageable for Rex Croft. There's people at vuw and waikato who started the cache farms (I remember a presentation at uniforum in 1995 or earlier about it).
discount on overseas travel by now and a e-Zimmer frame subsidy, so that Actually they aren't that old. The total capacity of the int'l link was below 0.5Mbps up to around mid 1994. (source graph from a paper by Donald Neal in 1996 http://www5conf.inria.fr/fich_html/papers/P46/figure1.jpg)
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