Editing AARNet (section)

===Pre-AARNet – pre-internet===
*1963: [[CSIRONET]] established by the CSIRO's Division of Computing Research
*1976: CSIRONET had grown to connect more than 50 computers spanning from [[Townsville]] to [[Hobart]] to [[Perth]] via a combination of dial-up and low speed leased line connections
*1979: [[ACSnet]] formed – used [[MHSnet]] to transfer [[Computer file|file]]s, email and [[netnews|newsgroups]] between computers in Australian universities and to the United States via low speed dialup connections
*1986: South Pacific Education and Research Network ([[SPEARnet]]) formed – used [[X.25]]-based [[Coloured Book protocols]] to interconnect 22 Australian and New Zealand universities
*1989: Internet brought to Australia via a [[NASA]]-subsidized 56&nbsp;kbit/s dedicated satellite circuit between the [[University of Melbourne]] and the [[University of Hawaii]]