https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Bang_path
Munnari being the UUCP connection between Australia and the rest of the world, run by Robert Elz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Robert_Elz
https://dif.vic.gov.au/editorial/4194-a/a-computer-server-an...
running Usenet news and people paying for newsgroups to subsidize the phone bill to Hawaii.
Dial up bulletin boards, connecting via FIDOnet, then slowly being absorbed into Usenet groups and mailing lists.
gopher servers, ftp servers, spam email, "endless September"...
I'm old :)