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CIRCA 1986 – Efren Tarcias and James Chua operated the first FidoNet BBS, "STAR BBS"
AUGUST 1986 - The first public access Philippine BBS, First-Fil RBBS, goes on-line
- Dan Angeles and Ted Castaneda
CIRCA 1987 - The First Philippine BBS network was established
1989 - EMC becomes the Philippine's first Internet Service Provider via UUCP.
JOEL DISINI- became the ccTLD Manager for the PH Domain by Jon Postel.
JON POSTEL– generally regarded as the “father of the Internet".
NETWAY – product of Mr. DisiniDECEMBER 1990 -(http://www.cyberbayan.org/)
–the first Philippine website and discussion group.
CIRCA 1991 - Roberto Verzola's E-Mail Center provided e-mail services to the Philippine NGO community
JONATHAN MARSDEN’S FebNet opened up its private e-mail services to the general public
1993 - Philnet Phase I was implemented
June 1993 - The Department of Science and Technology convened a Technical Committee
JULY 1993 - Phase I of the Philnet Project provided a limited electronic facilityNOVEMBER 1993 - Phase II of the Philnet
Project whereine a grant-in-aid of P12.5M was disposed
MARCH 1994 - Internet via CISCO 7000 in Makati
- De La Salle University is the first school to be connected via leased line to the wide area network of PLDT
MARCH 29, 1994 - Philippines was linked to the world via the Internet
April 1994 - The Advance Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) under the DOST, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the University of Santo Tomas (UST) joined PHNet
April 13, 1994 - The PHnet Basic Principles and the Internet Code of Conduct were established
PORTALINC is the first commercial service provider launched in the summer of 1994.
MAY 1994 - The University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) and the DOST
central office joined PHNet RON SAN JUAN’S Miss Saigon Page went online in 1994. AUGUST 1994 – MosCom became the first
commercial ISP to provide true continuous TCP/IP-based connectivity
SEPTEMBER 1994 – Akda, thefirst Philippine literary site went online
DECEMBER 10, 1994 - The Network Assistance Group (NAG) was established
MARCH 1995 - Republic Act 7925, known as the Public Telecommunications Act of the Philippines, was passed.
JUNE 1995 - Mindanao State University (MSU), the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Asian Institute of Management (AIM), and PDX became connected to PHNet
JUNE - AUGUST 1995 - Establishment of commercial ISP
CIRCA 1996 - Entry of foreign ISPs in the Philippines
**Bayantel and Sky Internet teamed up to provide the United Network Access
(UNA) **The Philippine Internet Services Organization (PISO) was
established
JANUARY 1996 - Epicnet, Mail and GSI went online
JUNE 1996 - Connected to Cisco 7000 in Makati: Cebu, Zamboanga, Sorsogon, Davao, Bacolod, Legaspi, Naga
LATE 1996 - Establishment of the Philippine Internet Exchange (PHIX)
CIRCA 1997 -The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimated that there were approximately 85,000 Internet users in the Philippines in 1997
1997• **T1 (1.5 mbps) and E1 (2.048 mbps)
connections to US Net providers became more commonplace
• **Global roaming networks allowed subscribers of local ISPs to access Net services abroad and be billed locally
• **ABS-CBN went online through its ABS-CBN Interactive Web site, as well as GMA Network by tying up with Webquest and coming up with GMANetwork.com
1997**Major broadsheets went online **Philippine cybermags sprung up: 1969, Internet World Philippines,
The Web Philippines and Link **Establishment of Philippine Network
Information Center/Infrastructure Consortium (PHNIC)
AUGUST 1997 - There were 1090 PH domains
DECEMBER 1998 - The first Philippine Webby Awards was launched
Philippine Internet Review: Ten Years of
the Internet (1994-2004) – a special publication that
chronicles and explains the development of the Internet in the
Philippines
I Love You Virus
ONEL DE GUZMAN - student from AMA Computer College Makati accidentally spread the virus through e-mails in 1999
CARLOS MIGUEL ALVAREZ PARAZ - has been involved in the technical directions of the local Internet
DANIEL O. ESCASA - operating systems 2009 – Philippines reach 6.3 Million Online Gamers.
SOURCES
• http://www.msc.edu.ph/wired/timeline.html• mabelle@msc.net.ph