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Broadband first started to replace dial-up in the early 2000s, with half of all Internet users having a broadband connection by 2007.

When Australia joined the global internet on June 23, 1989 – via a connection made by the University of Melbourne – it was mostly used by computer scientists. Three decades later, more than 86% of Australian households are connected to the internet.

ing to Mr Huston, it was the night of June 23, 1989 when Robert Elz of the University of Melbourne and Torben Nielsen of the University of Hawaii completed the connection work that brought the internet to Australia.

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In 1989, a group of Australian universities and research institutes established Australia's Academic And Research Network, also known as AARNet. We built the first Australian internet connection at the University of Melbourne, connected directly from the University of Hawaii.

January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other. A new communications protocol was established called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol (TCP/IP).

Overall 78.8% of households had an internet connection, compared with 81.4% in Greater Capital Cities.

In the early 1980s, a permanent Australian email connection to the U.S. ARPAnet was established. This involved various contributions by (now Prof.) Bob Kummerfeld and Piers Lauders at the University of Sydney, and Prof. Peter Poole and Robert Elz at the University of Melbourne.