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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Crikey we are all getting old – I was going to chip in earlier but can’t remember exactly but I think you are right, I was using that and then the teletext
service (later called austext when Channel 7 took it over, – a service through a free to air TV channel) so there were a few different options before the Internet swept all before.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The problem was that the value betting was with the bookmakers so nothing could beat being on course and working the ring to get the best fixed odds.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> Racing [mailto:racing-bounces@ausrace.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 28, 2017 1:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> AusRace Racing Discussion List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusRace] Not a test - well, yes a test of sorts ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I dunno if it counts as internet betting or not, but I was betting into the WA TAB a zillion years ago, with a system that was know as VIATEL.<br>
In my case it was via a modem connected to my Commodore 64 and must have been at least 30 years ago, but probably a lot more!<br>
My memory is not so good as I get old and grey, but I am pretty sure I would have been betting Vic Tab if similar was available there then.<br>
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On 28/01/2017 2:16 PM, Greg Conroy wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But you’re wrong with WATAB (which launched Ozbet).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The reason why I know? I was involved in the first site (iBet) at NSW TAB and both WA TAB and NSW TAB had IBM systems contracts.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We had to work with IBM and Telstra to help create ‘digital certificates’ via what they called The IBM World Registry. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Without that technology, internet betting was inherently insecure. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">From our IBM contacts, we were also aware they were helping WA TAB do similar so it was a bit of a competition as to who could launch first. We did so a few months before them.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When they launched, there’s a funny story actually. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One of their developers had setup a 404 error redirect to go to a porn site. I was looking at their newly launched site and found this very embarrassing error page. Back then (1995/96) the tools to take screen shots and even email that
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<p class="MsoNormal">NSW TAB’s email system, for example, couldn’t handle images. I think I contacted our Raceday Control to find their Fax number (all the tabs communicated via Fax back then) and then I printed this page and faxed it to them. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They managed to remove it just before the public launch, helped by the 2 hour delay in time zones!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So certainly we were the first at NSW TAB with iBet. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And as as aside, there’s also a story with Qld TAB. They sent one of their programmers to Sydney to sit with me for 2 weeks and I showed him how we created our site. He basically copied the structure and that’s the basis of the QTAB/Tatts/Ubet
site even 20 years later (although now being revamped under Ubet).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Those were the days when all the TABs were friendly state rivals - we even played cricket against each other.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greg<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 28 Jan 2017, at 1:31 pm, Nick at Twonix <<a href="mailto:nick.aubrey@twonix.com">nick.aubrey@twonix.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for the quiz … but IMHO you didn’t have the right answer to Qn 10. The question asks who was the first operator to offer internet betting. I believe
it was WA TAB … both NSW and QLD offered dedicated hand held devices that connected via the internet to their networks … but WA TAB was the only operator that just used the Internet.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Racing
[<a href="mailto:racing-bounces@ausrace.com">mailto:racing-bounces@ausrace.com</a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Greg Conroy<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, 27 January 2017 10:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Ausrace Racing <<a href="mailto:racing@ausrace.com">racing@ausrace.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[AusRace] Not a test - well, yes a test of sorts ...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Been a bit quiet all?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I expect most of you to score 90% or 100% in this … <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is a tricky question, Q 10 … see how you go.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Punting quiz I put together … <a href="http://bit.ly/2ksvFbR"><span style="color:purple">http://bit.ly/2ksvFbR</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greg Conroy, Inventor of Award Winning and Free:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#425AF6"><a href="http://www.rewardbet.com/"><span style="color:purple">www.rewardbet.com</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> … more: </span><a href="http://promo.rewardbet.com/"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:purple">http://promo.rewardbet.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Greg Conroy, Inventor of Award Winning and Free:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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