Editing History of the Internet (section)

====The link to the Pacific====
Japan, which had built the UUCP-based network [[JUNET]] in 1984, connected to CSNET,<ref name=":10" /> and later to NSFNET in 1989, marking the spread of the Internet to Asia.

South Korea set up a two-node domestic TCP/IP network in 1982, the System Development Network (SDN), adding a third node the following year. SDN was connected to the rest of the world in August 1983 using UUCP (Unix-to-Unix-Copy); connected to CSNET in December 1984;<ref name=":10" /> and formally connected to the NSFNET in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://net.its.hawaii.edu/history/Korean_Internet_History.pdf |title=A Brief History of the Internet in Korea |author=Kilnam Chon |author2=Hyunje Park |author3=Kyungran Kang |author4=Youngeum Lee }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A Brief History of the Internet in Korea (2005) – 한국 인터넷 역사 프로젝트 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/koreainternethistory/publication/brief-history-korea-eng-ver |access-date=2016-05-30 |website=sites.google.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Shrum |first1=Wesley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cNFOD_g7xXIC&pg=PA55 |title=Past, Present and Future of Research in the Information Society |last2=Benson |first2=Keith |last3=Bijker |first3=Wiebe |last4=Brunnstein |first4=Klaus |date=2007-12-14 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-0-387-47650-6 |page=55 |language=en}}</ref>

In Australia, ad hoc networking to ARPA and in-between Australian universities formed in the late 1980s, based on various technologies such as X.25, [[UUCP]]Net, and via a CSNET.<ref name=":10" /> These were limited in their connection to the global networks, due to the cost of making individual international UUCP dial-up or X.25 connections. In 1989, Australian universities joined the push towards using IP protocols to unify their networking infrastructures. [[AARNet]] was formed in 1989 by the [[Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee]] and provided a dedicated IP based network for Australia.

New Zealand adopted the UK's [[Coloured Book protocols]] as an interim standard and established its first international IP connection to the U.S. in 1989.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History of University of Waikato: University of Waikato|url=https://www.waikato.ac.nz/about/history.shtml|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801155046/https://www.waikato.ac.nz/about/history.shtml|archive-date=2020-08-01|access-date=2020-02-09|website=www.waikato.ac.nz}}</ref>