Australia is ranked 43rd in the world for internet. :-)
That's part of the "backward" title.
CIA base at Pine Gap in the Outback probably has its own better system. :-)
Given that Australia is on the bottom half of the globe and the logistic difficulties in having to put poles and stuff in upside down, plus WFi signals falling down into the ether of space, 43rd is pretty good. If I understand the science correctly.
LOL
It's appalling, that's what it is.
20 Australian inventions that changed the world:
1. Wi-Fi technology.
2. Black box flight recorder
3. Spray-on skin
4. Electronic pacemaker
5. Google maps
6. Medical application of penicillin
7. Polymer bank notes
8. Cochlear implant (bionic ear)
9. Electric drill
10. Winged keel
11. Permaculture
12. Ultrasound scanner
13. Plastic spectacle lenses
14. Inflatable escape slide and raft
15. Permanent-crease clothing
16. Gardasil and Cervarix cancer vaccines.
17. Frazier lens
18. Triton work centre
19. Tank-bred tuna system
20. Racecam