1992Hong Kong

JapanMalaysia

Internet Society Established

2002Internet Society successfully bidsfor .ORG registry

2003

AfghanistanTimor-Leste

1st Meeting of the South AsianNetwork Operators Group (SANOG) in

Kathmandu, Nepal

2005Nokia E series (with embedded keyboard)

launched

YouTube launched

1st Meeting of the Pacific NetworkOperators Group (PacNOG) in Nadi, Fiji

Winner of Jonathan B. PostelService Award - Jun Murai

2006

2007

2009

1st commercial 4G/LTE deployedin Stockholm and Oslo

WhatsApp launched

Creation of internationalized domainnames for country code top-level

(ccTLDs) approved by ICANN

201725th Anniversary ofthe Internet Society

2010

Wireless for Communities Programmelaunched in Chanderi, India Winner of Jonathan B. Postel

Service Award - Jianping Wu

1999

BhutanPapua New Guinea

2014

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees (Asia)Abhaya Induruwa, Sri LankaHualin Qian, ChinaMahabir Pun, NepalMasaki Hirabaru, JapanSrinivasan Ramani, India

Winner of Jonathan B. PostelService Award - Mahabir Pun

1993 National Center for SupercomputingApplications released Mosaic Web Browser

APNIC, the regionalInternet address registryfor the Asia-Pacific,established

1994BangladeshIndonesia

Republic of KoreaPhilippinesSingapore

1st Internet Society Chapterfounded in Japan

2001Southern Cross Cable linking thePacific to US completed

2008Internet Society establishedthe Asia-Pacific Bureau

2011

LINE, Japanese messagingapp, launched

WeChat, Chinesemessaging app, launched

Internet Society Singaporeentity established

Winner of Jonathan B. PostelService Award - Kilnam Chon

20122012 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees (Asia)

Tan Tin Wee, SingaporeKilnam Chon, Republic of KoreaToru Takahashi, Japan

1st Asia Internet Symposium (AIS)in Manila, Philippines

2013

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees (Asia)Gihan Dias, Sri LankaHaruhisa Ishida, JapanJun Murai, JapanKanchana Kanchanasut, ThailandQiheng Hu, China

China created Tianhe-2 a 33.86petaflop computer

2016 1st Regional Internet & DevelopmentDialogue (RIDD) in Bangkok, Thailand

Winner of Jonathan B. PostelService Award - Kanchana Kanchanasut

20001st IETF meeting in the Asia-Pacific

region in Adelaide, Australia

Trek 2000 International in Singaporecreated the ThumbDrive

MyanmarTuvalu

SEA-ME-WE3submarine cable

completed

1996Nokia 9000 Communicator released, the

1st mobile phone with Internet capabilities

Hotmail and Rocketmail launched

MaldivesMongoliaViet Nam

1st Asia Pacific RegionalInternet Conference on

Operational Technologies(APRICOT) in Singapore

1995Nepal

PakistanSri LankaTaiwan

Thailand

Brunei DarussalamChina

FijiIndia

2004

1st IETF meeting in San Diego, USA (1986)World Wide Web opened to the public (1991)

Linux source code released (1991)

Australia (1989)New Zealand (1989)

1997CambodiaLao PDR

Solomon Islands

1998NauruSamoa Asia Pacific Top Level

Domain Name Association(APTLD) established

FlipKart, leadinge-commerce websitein India, launched

1st commercial Androiddevice, TMobile G1,launched

Kakao Talk, Koreanmessaging app,launched

Grab, taxi booking appin South-East Asia,launched

Lazada, leadingecommerce website inSouth-East Asia, launched

Friendsterlaunched

1st Blackberrydevice launched

Alibaba established

Yahoo! launched

Windows 95 launched

Google launched

ICANN established

Wikipedia launched

MySpace launched

Skype launched

Facebook launched

Twitter launched

iPhone launched

iPad launched

Orkut launched

1st Asia-Pacific IGF in Hong Kong

1st billion Internet users in the Asia-Pacific

100th IETF meeting in Singapore

1st Asia-Pacific Regional Policy Survey

3 billion Internet users

2 billion Internet users

1st Regional INET in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2nd Phase of WSIS

1st Global IGF

1st commercial 3G launched in Japan

IPv6 specification released by IETF

INET '92 Kobe in Japan

1st Phase of WSIS

1 billion Internet users

Globalmilestones

InternetSocietymilestones

Asia-Pacificmilestones

When countries first hadInternet connection(based on establishmentdate of first commercialInternet service provider)

1992-2017

The Internet Society's 25th anniversary timeline& history of the Internet in Asia and the Pacific

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