15 Apr
2019
15 Apr
'19
11:57 a.m.
Since nobody else seems to have noticed ... ... today is the 30th anniversary of the Internet reaching NZ. On 16 April 1989, John Houlker plugged in the PACCOM link connecting the University of Waikato, via an analogue circuit on the ANZCAN cable,to the University of Hawaii and thence to the Internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98xdUWja_aM Also of note was that on 1 April 1989, the Telecommunications Amendment Act 1988 came into force, formally ending the century-old NZPO/Telecom regulated telecommunications monopoly. (The de-facto monopoly took a bit longer to dismantle.) -- Don Stokes, don(a)nz.net mailto:don(a)nz.net, 021 796 072