{"id":608,"date":"2026-03-31T07:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ozbroadbandreview.com\/blog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:01:13","slug":"history-of-the-internet-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ozbroadbandreview.com\/blog\/history-of-the-internet-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Internet in Australia (2026): A Timeline From 1989 to Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"obbr-last-updated\" style=\"color:#777;font-size:0.92em;margin-bottom:1.2em;font-style:italic;\">Last updated: 18 May 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1989, Australia was first connected to the internet through the University of Melbourne. At that time, the internet mostly consisted of computer scientists communicating between major universities. Even the fastest connections between major cities in Australia were limited to less than 50kbps. With 128kbps considered the absolute lowest acceptable bitrate for music files today, Australia didn&#8217;t have the capacity to stream a single music file over its national backbone network links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today the NBN offers gigabit connections \u2014 and from 2024, a 2 Gbps (NBN 2000) tier \u2014 directly to homes and businesses. The average Australian household now downloads over 540 GB of data per month, with 5G home wireless and Starlink satellite filling the gaps in places NBN fibre doesn&#8217;t reach. This is a timeline of Australia&#8217;s journey with the internet, from its 1989 inception through to 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline Cool-Content-Timeline\"><div class=\"cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203\"><style>.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-vertical-timeline-body .story-time p{color: #333;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-horizontal-timeline-body .story-time p{color: #333;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-vertical-timeline-body::before{background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(230, 230, 230, 0) 0%, #D91B3E 10%, #D91B3E 90%, rgba(230, 230, 230, 0) 100%);}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-horizontal-timeline-body .timeline-content::before{background: #D91B3E;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-horizontal-timeline-body .timeline-content::after{background: #D91B3E;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-vertical-timeline-body .timeline-content::before{background: #D91B3E !important;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-vertical-timeline-body.left .story-details::after{background: #D91B3E !important;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-vertical-timeline-body.right .story-time::after{background: #D91B3E !important;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-vertical-timeline-body .timeline-content .timeline-block-icon{background: #D91B3E !important;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-horizontal-timeline-body .timeline-content .timeline-block-icon{background: #D91B3E !important;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-vertical-timeline-body.both-sided .timeline-content .position-right .story-details::before{border-right-color: #D91B3E !important;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-vertical-timeline-body.both-sided .timeline-content .position-left  .story-details::before{border-left-color: #D91B3E !important;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-vertical-timeline-body.one-sided.left .timeline-content  .story-details::before{border-right-color: #D91B3E !important;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-vertical-timeline-body.one-sided.right .timeline-content  .story-details::before{border-left-color: #D91B3E !important;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-vertical-timeline-body .timeline-content  .story-details{border-color: #D91B3E !important;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-horizontal-timeline-body .timeline-content .ctl-row .ctl-6.timeline-block-detail::before{border-bottom-color: #D91B3E !important;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-horizontal-timeline-body .ctl-6.timeline-block-detail{border-top-color: #D91B3E !important;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-vertical-timeline-body .timeline-content  .timeline-block-icon{border-color: #D91B3EFF !important;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-horizontal-timeline-body .swiper-button-next{color: #D91B3E;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-horizontal-timeline-body .swiper-button-prev{color: #D91B3E;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .cool-horizontal-timeline-body .swiper-pagination-bullet-active{background: #D91B3E;}.cool-timeline-block-f13c6e41-62d9-4a82-a4f0-d99cfff9f203 .icon-true .timeline-block-icon span.timeline-block-render-icon svg{fill: white;}<\/style><div class=\"cool-vertical-timeline-body both-sided left\"><div class=\"cool-timeline-block-list\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2026<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Wi-Fi 7 and NBN 2000 go mainstream<\/h3><p>Wi-Fi 7 routers become widely available in Australia and NBN 2000 (2 Gbps) reaches more FTTP-served suburbs. Starlink has over 7,000 satellites in orbit globally with strong Australian coverage including the Mini home unit.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2025<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Free FTTP upgrade hits 2 million Australian homes<\/h3><p>NBN Co&#39;s free FTTP upgrade program (running since 2020) crosses 2 million upgraded homes. FTTN copper is gradually phased out in favour of fibre across most metropolitan and regional areas.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2024<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>NBN 2000 launches and Starlink crosses 200,000 Australian customers<\/h3><p>NBN Co releases its 2 Gbps speed tier (NBN 2000) for FTTP customers, the fastest residential plan available in Australia. Starlink satellite internet passes 200,000 Australian subscribers, providing high-speed alternatives to NBN Sky Muster for rural Australians.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2023<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>5G home wireless becomes a real NBN alternative<\/h3><p>Telstra, Optus, TPG and Vodafone all sell 5G home wireless plans by 2023. Adoption crosses 500,000 households as 5G coverage expands to most major Australian regional centres.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2022<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>NBN Co launches free FTTP upgrade program<\/h3><p>NBN Co announces that millions of homes on FTTN and FTTC connections become eligible for free upgrades to full fibre when they order a higher speed plan. The biggest single broadband infrastructure boost since the NBN rollout began.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2020<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>NBN 90% complete<\/h3><p>Stephen Rue (CEO of NBN Co.) announcd the NBN rollout is 90% complete in February 2022.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2019<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Australia&#8217;s first 5G network<\/h3><p>Telstra launched Australia&#8217;s first 5G network. 5G has a theoretical maximum speed of 10Gbps, but Australia&#8217;s 5G network still struggles to reach 1Gbps even in our biggest cities.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2016<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>FTTC added to NBN rollout<\/h3><p>Fibre To The Curb (FTTC) is added to the mix of technologies  in the NBN rollout.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2015<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Netflix reaches Australia<\/h3><p>By the end of 2015, Australia was  still one of only 50 countries with Netflix access. In 2017, this would grow to 190 countries.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2013<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>NBN Rollout changed to multi-technology mix<\/h3><p>The Liberal\/National Coalition replaced the Labor government in the 2013 federal election. They changed the planned FTTP NBN rollout to make use of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozbroadbandreview.com\/blog\/different-types-of-nbn-internet-connections\/\">mix of technologies<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2012<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Australia&#8217;s first 4G smartphone<\/h3><p>Telstra launched Australia&#8217;s first 4G-compatible smartphone, the HTC velocity 4G. 4G offers download speeds of up to 150Mbps.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2011<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Telstra privatisation complete<\/h3><p>The federal government sold the last of its remaining Telstra shares, ending it&#8217;s three stage privatisation plan.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2009<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>NBN Co. Established<\/h3><p>Initially, the NBN rollout was expected to be reach completion by 2021 with 93% of homes connected through an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozbroadbandreview.com\/blog\/different-types-of-nbn-internet-connections\/\">FTTP<\/a> connection.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2009<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>First Android phone released in Australia &#8211; HTC Dream<\/h3><p>Android phones are generally more affordable than iPhones and helped bring the internet to the pockets of many Australians.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2008<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Google Chrome Web Browser released<\/h3><p>Today, Chrome has a 65.5% market share making it the most popular web browser by far.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2008<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>iPhone launched in Australia <\/h3><p>The iphone bought the internet to the mobile phone and gave  Australians one of the first usable handheld devices to browse the web on.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2007<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Labor party wins federal election<\/h3><p>The election platform of the labor party in 2007 included the rollout of a National Broadband Network (NBN) expected to begin before the end of 2008.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2006<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>AARNet begins work on its second backbone network<\/h3><p>The second AARNet national backbone network (AARNet2) was built in collaboration with Optus.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2004<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Firefox launched<\/h3><p>Mozilla launches the Firefox Web Browser, achieving more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/about\/history\/\">100 million downloads<\/a> in the first year<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2004<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Gmail Launched <\/h3><p>Today, Gmail has a market share of 28%, making it the second most popular email client behind Apple Mail.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2003<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Australia&#8217;s first 3G network<\/h3><p>Hutchison launched Australia&#8217;s first 3G network, covering 96% of the population. 3G has a maximum download speed of 42Mbps<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2002<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/google-launches-australian-version-20021224-gduz5d.html\">Google launches an australian branch<\/a><\/h3><p>At the time, google was ranked as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2002-sep-02-fi-techbrfs2.2-story.html\">fourth most popular search engine<\/a>, behind AOL, MSN, and Yahoo!.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>2002<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>ADSL2 Introduced<\/h3><p>ADSL2 allowed for download speeds of up to 24Mbps, compared to the 2Mbps of ADSL1.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1999<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Stage 2 of Telstra&#8217;s privitisation plan<\/h3><p>The commonwealth government sold another 16% of Telstra&#8217;s shares in the second stage of its transition to full private ownership.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1999<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Telstra launches first retail ADSL service <\/h3><p>Telstra&#8217;s initial rollout of ADSL was limited to 1.5Mbps. However, speeds of up to 6Mbps through ADSL had already been demonstrated in Australia by Telecom Research Labs.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1998<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Google launched<\/h3><p>Google search engine officially launched by Stanford Students Larry Page and Sergey Brin<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1998<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>IRC Created <\/h3><p>Jakko Oikarinen created IRC (Internet Relay Chat) to be part of a BBS for the University of Oulu. It grew rapidly, and by 1989 there were already 40 IRC servers worldwide.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1997<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Telstra begins selling shares<\/h3><p>The Commonwealth sold 33% of its Telstra shares, the first of three stages in a transition to full private ownership.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1997<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Yahoo! Launches an Australian branch<\/h3><p>Australia and New Zealand join the 7 other countries with seperate Yahoo! regions. At the time, Yahoo Australia and New Zealand had <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080112060302\/http:\/\/yhoo.client.shareholder.com:80\/press\/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=173321\">more than 14,000 local sites and more than 20,000 local links.<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1996<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Hotmail Launched<\/h3><p>After being acquired by Microsoft in the same year, Hotmail would grow massively to become the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/1999\/02\/08\/msn-hotmail-from-zero-to-30-million-members-in-30-months\/\">largest email service worldwide by 1999<\/a>, with more than 30 million active users.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1996<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Bigpond launched<\/h3><p>Telstra launched Bigpond and used it to distribute wholesale cable internet access.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1995<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Microsoft launches Internet Explorer<\/h3><p>Internet explorer came bundled with windows installs and by 2003 had reached <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/10095730\">95% total usage share<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/kinsta.com\/browser-market-share\/\"> In 2022, it sits at 2% and Microsoft&#8217;s new web browser <em>Microsoft Edge<\/em> is at 5.8%.<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1995<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>AARNet1 sold to Telstra<\/h3><p>Telstra took on responsibility for managing the existing AARNet network and operated it as Telstra Internet. AARNet1 was Australia&#8217;s first national backbone network and permanent connection to the global internet.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1994<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Yahoo! launched<\/h3><p>Jerry Yang and David Filo launch Yahoo!, offering various services including e-mail and a search engine<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1994<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Netscape Navigator Launched<\/h3><p>Known as Mosaic at the time, the browser was released by Mosaic Communications Coorporation (now known as Netscape Communications Coorporation)<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1993<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>Mosaic web browser released<\/h3><p>Tim Berners-Lee created the Mosaic web browser, the first truly user-friendly, graphical web browser. It introduced many of the layout standards which continue today and was the first web browser to display images alongside text in a web page.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1990<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>First cable-modems <\/h3><p>Rouzbeh Yassini founded LANCity, creating the first cable-modems capable of high-speed data transfer over coaxial cables. Today, cable interent provides speeds of up to 500Mbps.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1990<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>AARNet National backbone established<\/h3><p>the AARNet national backbone connected Universities across the country to a central hub at the University of Melbourne. Each link supported speeds of up to 48kbps.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1989<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>First Australian ISP <\/h3><p>Pegasus begun offering dial-up internet (56Kbps) as a commercial service in major cities, becoming Australia&#8217;s first ISP.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1989<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>World Wide Web Established<\/h3><p>Though mostly unimportant at the time, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web. This is the set of protocols used today for exchanging documents and other web resources over the internet.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1989<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>AARNet Established<\/h3><p>The Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet) was launched by the Australian Vice-Chancellor&#8217;s Committee (now Universities Australia). It established Australia&#8217;s first long-term connection to the global internet.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1983<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>ARPANET adopts TCP\/IP<\/h3><p>ARPANET Adopts a new internet protocol suite based on the specification published in 1974. It was called TCP\/IP (Transfer Control Protocol \/ Internet Protocol), and set a standard which continues today.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1979<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>ACSNet Launched<\/h3><p>The Australian Computer Science network connected Australian universities to each other and to ARPANET using a store-and-forward message handling system.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1978<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>First BBS Created<\/h3><p>Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launch CBBS (Computerised Bulletin Board Systems), making it the first public dial-up BBS.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1975<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>First fibre-optic network<\/h3><p>Fibre-optic cables used to link a network of computers together in the NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) headquaters in Colorada, USA.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1974<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>TCP\/IP precursor published<\/h3><p>DARPA scientists Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn publish &#8216;Specification or Internet Control Protocol&#8217;, a formal specification of a protocol for internetwork communication using packet switching.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1969<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>ARPANET Established<\/h3><p>The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was established by the United States Department of Defence and introduced many of the internet standards we continue to use today. It is an early example of a large scale packet-switched networks.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>1963<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>CSIRONET established<\/h3><p>The CSIRO division of computing research established a national network of dial-up and low-speed leased line connections called CSIRONET.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Frequently asked questions about Australian internet history<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When did internet first come to Australia?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1989. 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