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TribesmanJohn 🇦🇺🌏👨🏼‍💻📷

Hey Australian Internet Peeps of the 1990s,

I am trying to find some definitive information about a Federal(?) government “Community Public Access Network (CPAN)”, which I believe existed between at least 1995-1997.

I have solid memories of this as a teenager visiting a local Government building to access the internet (which was mainly gopher at the time) and obtaining an email address which was @cpan.???.gov.au with Eudora on a floppy disk. The service I think shut down around 1997 and people were told to go and sign up with new email provider Hotmail.

I have not been able to find any references to this early internet service and would love to try and get some information about it.

Special Shoutout @NewtonMark any chance you have any knowledge on this, or have a contact who would? (I am too scared to cold-message Geoff Huston :))

#Australia#internet#telco
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chestas

Tasmanian Labor are fucking useless.

Premier Rockliff lied about the amount of taxpayers money will be needed for the proposed Stadium. Labor had a golden opportunity to oust him and possibly even take over power, but instead they backed the Liberals?

WTF!!!

#tasmania #lutruwita #TasPol #auspol

pulsetasmania.com.au/news/rock

Pulse Tasmania · Rockliff survives no-confidence motion over stadium controversyBy Pulse Tasmania
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TribesmanJohn 🇦🇺🌏👨🏼‍💻📷

@shtrom It was more a shambolic legislation that the government introduced after “heavily consulting" with the manufacturers, because as we all know Coca Cola and Pepsi would be only too happy to support this out of the goodness of their heart, and not try and claw back the tiny amount of lost revenue right? </sarcasm>

It gets better, because some local take away shops has taken this as an excuse to raise prices on all cold drinks by 50c.

Its claimed Tasmania is unique because of the cost of freight across Bass Strait is making it expensive. I don't doubt it, but was the Federal Backed "Freight Equalisation Scheme" mean to help offset that? oh yea, thats underfunded so no.

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