Table of contents

• American Samoa
• Cook Islands
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Fiji
• French Polynesia
• Guam
• Kiribati
• Nauru
• Marshall Islands
• New Caledonia
• Niue
• Northern Marianas
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
• Pitcairn
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tokelau
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu
• Wallis and Futuna

American Samoa

Cook Islands

02/05/06 - 1994: Jurgen Nordqvist of Digital Technologies set up a bulletin board for 10 local enthusiasts. This was a free service using a 2400bps modem. He lives in Australia, not sure how to contact him.
Jeane Matenga

Federated States of Micronesia

Fiji

02/05/06 - When I came in 93 in Fiji, we had a uucp link to Noumea, IRD( ORSTOM then) to exchange e-mails. That was set up by the previous french cooperant. At the time, USP had already a full time link to Waikato University, and was using a mail only link before that (I guess uucp too).
Franck Martin

French Polynesia

Guam

Kiribati

Nauru

Marshall Islands

New Caledonia

02/05/06 - I think in Noumea it would be Russell Price via dial up using the old TRANSPAC to Byte in the USA for Email for Fisheries, I am sure this was well before ORSTOM set up .nc I will check.
Al Blake and I did Email over PEACESAT here very early on, again I would have to dig that up, but I think by that time Internet was sort of established here, anwyay will dig around.
Phill Hardstaff

Niue

Northern Marianas

Palau

Papua New Guinea

02/05/06 - Here in Papua New Guinea, the PNG University of Technology is the first to use internet thru dial-up access in 92 via a link-up with a university in UK.
This was done thru the initiative of Mr. Noel Mobiha, who is currently the managing director of Pacific Mobile Communications.
Stanley A Osao

Pitcairn

Samoa

02/05/06 - For Samoa, Mr Bruce Edwards 1996 He set-up and operated a company called Pacific Internet Services. Was a 64kb tcp/ip connection via satellite to sydney australia with a cisco 2511, linux web server, nt domain server, wfwg tacacs+ server
Costs: 64kb circuit costs $WST30,000.00 per month ($US14,000.00) dialup users currently pay $WST5.00 per hour
Dave Main
03/05/06 - Just before Bruce E was a SPREP mail only setup with mailruns three times a day. Around 1994/95 the National University was getting email from this SPREP setup. It was being managed by a lady Wanda Ieremia then.
Leiataua Loritana

Solomon Islands

Tokelau

Tonga

Tuvalu

Vanuatu

02/05/06 - For Vanuatu, I was first and www.vanuatu.net.vu was the domain that 'activated' the .vu domain space.
The first connection was a 9.6k modem dialing internationally to get a connection through America On Line in order to get out on to the 'net'.
The telephone bill for the first month came to $US25,000 - expensive surfing - but hey - it was the first !
Marke
02/05/06 - Just an additional explanation. .VU was first registered by FFA under Dorosday's name as Administrator through a partnership FFA had with Connect.com.au of Australia. She was Director of Fisheries at the time. Then the govt wanted .VU transferred to the telco and even though I presented to the Hon Minister at the time that best practice was to keep .VU admin separate from the telco, the minister wanted it otherwise, and Dorosday signed over .VU admin.
Sam Taufao
02/05/06 - I could probably pin it done to the very first day and hour if I searched around. The first website went up on Feb 26th 1996. The first connection was sometime early to mid 1995.
At the time www.vanuatu.net.vu went online, there were around 200 website containing 'vanuatu info', none of them maintained by anyone living in Vanuatu and nothing of course under the .vu.
The second site to go up was a kiwi who served a site called vannet.com.vu, I think this may have been the first one TVL registered here. It was the 'second' vanuatu 'owned' website but disappeared about a year after starting.
Marke

Wallis and Futuna

---