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.)