Discussion of Australian internet reminds me that once thought it quite exotic to find myself looking at Wollongong University's pages on Gopher, once, looking at stuff like their library opening hours, etc. And not because it was on Gopher[1], but because I'd never really been anywhere beyond .uk, .de[2] and of course the iTLDs that were probably predominantly 'Merkin.
No surprise that it was a University, *.ac.uk (or UK.AC.*, depending upon protocol) via JANET pretty much dominated anything 'local', and of course Wollongong Uni was likely to be connected. I imagine that a farmstead 100 miles away from the nearest regularly repaved road in the middle of the western desert is still going to be at the tail-end of even a POTS/dial-up connectivity 'revolution', never mind getting gigabit optical broadband that many (though by no means all, or even most) might expect over on this small island.
[1] This was slightly pre-web. Gopher was exotic, I suppose, but only at the Presentation Layer level. The underlying mechanism was no different from ftp or telnet. And my first Web access was likely on Lynx (on a telnet login), until we got Mosaic running on X, so very much the same.
[2] And maybe other European mirror-hubs/resources, but probably saw .fi more than .fr because the latter tended not to have so much anglophone-accessible material .