Despite my work on the history of the Internet in Oz and WWW in Oz, I've never actually looked at the NZ experience.
By means of that time-honoured search strategy, 'looking for something else at the time', I've tripped over this very substantial history: Newman K. (2008) 'Connecting the Clouds - The Internet in New Zealand' Commissioned by InternetNZ (the Internet Society of New Zealand Inc), Activity Press, 2008, at https://www.nethistory.co.nz Quote from Chapter 4: https://www.nethistory.co.nz/Chapter_4_-_Nuclear_Free_Reforms/ (and search for <April>) > In April 1989, a full 18 months after the Princeton meeting, the analogue undersea link to Waikato went live. At the Waikato end was a software-based gateway linking the various types of email, and a translation gateway built from an innovative mix of the CSnet software and code from the United Kingdom. ... [ The rest of that para. is interesting if you're into techno-drama. ] -- Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected] T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.com Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
