What is the history of DIALix?
DIALix was conceived in a suburban garage in Woodlands, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, in late 1989. DIALix offered modem dial-up access to a commercial Unix system – at a famously low price of 1 cent per minute. Soon afterwards, DIALix obtained a UUCP (email and Usenet news only) connection to the outside world by way of AARNet (the Australian Academic and Research Network), providing email access for the first time to many Perth residents. In doing so, DIALix was arguably the first business in Australia providing Internet access to Australians outside of the academic environment. DIALix was unique and inexpensive enough to attract customers from not only Perth but also the other states of Australia and even overseas – all calling long distance into the single Perth POP. For a while in the early 1990s, the main Internet connection for Indonesia was a phone call into DIALix! In 1992, DIALix expanded east with the installation of a POP in Sydney, providing local call access to a
