Historical Papers
This section contains a collection of papers and notes about Australian ICT history.
Early Australian Internet
In 1986, a year after the Internet domain name system was deployed, Australia's.au country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) came into being at the approval of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (performing IANA's function at the time). »» Read more...
Connections in the History of Australian Computing
This paper gives an overview of early Australian computing milestones up to about 1970 and demonstrates a mesh of influences. Wartime radar, initially from Britain, provided basic experience for many computing engineers. This is an excellent perspective on how Australia influenced the development of the digital computer as we know it today. Written by John Deane, one of the co-inventors ... »» Read more...