PHILIPPINE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

CATAJAY, Maria CarielleSUZON, Dianne

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