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* 7 Oct Duncan ~McEwan announces <tt>vuwcomp</tt> on <tt>net.news.newsite</tt> [October 1986 net.news.newsite post|http://groups.google.co.nz/groups?selm=12396%40vuwcomp.UUCP&output=gplain]
!!1987
+* 19th Jan: .nz is registered [Ref|http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/nz.html]
* [DSIRnet] links main DSIR sites.
* SPEARNET (South Pacific Educational and Research Network) links all Universities.
* SPEARNET implements JANET Coloured book protocols including Grey Book mail and Blue Book file transfer over the Yellow book transport layer, lower layers are provided by Telecoms PACNET X.25 Network.
* Victoria University adds a UUCP connection to seismo (the site that evolves into UUNET).
@@ -97,9 +98,9 @@
* Little concept of "peering". [ISP]s and Universities "connect to Waikato" in order to access the Internet
* Routers, switches and associated baggage are commonly operated by Waikato ITS staff, who generally know more about them than the telcos
* Telecoms deregulation
* ([Refs|http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/nznog/2000-February/001182.html])
-* April: Kawaihiko's IP network started as an analog 9k6 link to Hawaii ([ref|http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/nznog/2000-February/001202.html] [pics|http://www
.wlug.org.nz/archive/history/])
+* April: Kawaihiko's IP network started as an analog 9k6 link to Hawaii ([ref|http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/nznog/2000-February/001202.html] [pics|http://wiki
.wlug.org.nz/archive/history/])
* November: Link to ~WCC replacing ~UUCP link.
* November: [Actrix|http://www.actrix.co.nz/page.php?id=43] started, Actrix links via UUCP to Victoria University Computer Science for email/news. International traffic charged at $10/MB. (This doesn't sound right. I've got email from '92 that puts VUW Comp Sci email charges at $60/MB, and I'm sure they were higher in '89. Note that this is for email, not IP. -- don)
