Comments on: Australia banks $2 billion from ‘illegal’ P2P

By: Tom Koltai

Tom Koltai — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:08:39 +0000

Um yes, I sent my first email on an AT&T 3B2 using Adam Curry’s newly release UUCP protocol on the 3rd of September, 1983 from my garage “office/den” in Darwin Australia to Kirk@berkely. And it was an acoustic coupler that I rented from Telecom in Oz for $5300 per annum. Top speed was 54 Bits per second (with a tail wind) providing it wasnt raining. (rain shorted the copper in the pits).

Regards,

Tom

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:52:12 +0000

Well, it says he’s run several ISPs. maybe he’s bigtime old-school, and started out dialing into DARPANET on an acoustic coupler. wargames style.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:29:04 +0000

RE:

Tom Koltai – p2pnet
[Koltai is an economist in Sydney Australia. Heâs been online for 26 years, ”

That would have to be that Tom has been online since 1983…..

Is this correct ???

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:02:09 +0000

Very insightful.

Made me see things I haven’t before.

Thumbs up for this article.