CAS Netlink

CAS Netlink has been providing web hosting services to the local Ballarat community since 1995. Back then we were called 'Cyberlink Access Systems'. You can see our old site at The Wayback Machine. That was in 1997 and was probably the third or fourth re-design of our website. At the time it seemed quite fancy, but by todays standards it looks a bit awful! We like to think of ourselves as pioneers in some ways. Some of the tools and systems that we used when they were just beta (or test) versions, such as PHP and Linux, have become an integral part of websites and web hosting. We've seen a lot of changes since the early 1990's, not the least of which is speed. There was a time when a 9600 baud (that's just 9.6k) modem was the Ferrari of online technology. The bandwidth of international Internet cable links was measured in kilobits and websites were text only as the technology to display images in a web browser had not been developed.