Australia can be proud to lay claim to be the first country in the world to employ 'real time' audio for online AA meetings and can be verified on that fact by an American member (Nancy) who assisted 'yours truly' in the opening of the very first inaugural meeting sometime back in the latter half of the 1990's. I still have contact with that gracious lady whom I have met f2f since those real early days of audio meetings and very grateful for all she has done in playing such a special part in the structure of AA online audio meetings for recovering alcoholics, world wide!

It was set up on M-player and became the first fully operational AA audio meeting in the world a couple of months or so before the famous Sobervoices group came into being. A little while later we threw our hat in with SV's' and become the one group overall. I feel that is something the Australian AA Fellowship can be happy to acclaim to in our part of an undying quest to carry the wonderful message of hope directly to the heart many suffering alcoholics located in many parts of our wide world.