The Australian Computer Science Network (ACSnet) was a store-and-forward

Store and forward

Store and forward is a telecommunications technique in which information is sent to an intermediate station where it is kept and sent at a later time to the final destination or to another intermediate station. The intermediate station, or node in a networking context, verifies the integrity of...

 network used to connect Australia's Universities to each other and to ARPANET

ARPANET

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network , was the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet...

. In 1989, with the introduction of AARnet

AARNet

AARNet or Australian Academic and Research Network offers Internet services to the Australian education and research communities and their research partners.AARNet is a not-for-profit company limited by shares...

 which directly connected Australia's Universities to the Internet, it became obsolete.

It was originally implemented using SUN3

MHSnet

MHSnet is a store-and-forward messaging system for wide area networks. MHSnet and its precursor, SUN3, were used to implement the Australian Computer Science network ....

 software from Sydney University.

ACSnet connected hosts in Australia resided in a .oz domain, which was moved into the Internet's .au

.au

.au is the Internet country code top-level domain for Australia.-History:The domain name was originally allocated by Jon Postel, operator of IANA to Kevin Robert Elz of Melbourne University in 1986. After an approximately five year process in the 1990s, the Internet industry created a self...

namespace as .oz.au.

External links

• History of the Internet in Australia