An Asia Internet History - Fifth Decade (2020s) - First Edition

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ACRONYMS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1   Introduction

CHAPTER 2   Internet Access

                      2.1  Overview
2.2  Users

CHAPTER 3   Digital Services

                     3.1 Introduction [ppt]
3.2 Digital Transformation [ppt]
                        3.3 Digital Payment and Digital Currency
3.4 Social Media
                        3.5 Artificial Intelligence [ppt]                     

CHAPTER 4   Digital Ecosystem

                     4.1 Introduction
4.2 Internet Ecosystem [ppt]
4.3 AI Ecosystem [ppt] 

CHAPTER 5  Global Issues and the Internet - (to be updated)

                    5.1  Climate, Energy and Environment
                        5.2  Existential Risks

CHAPTER 6  Snapshots of the Internet in the 2020s        

                       6.1  Nepal (Harsha Man Maharjan)
                      6.2  Japan (Kazunori Konishi)
                      6.3  India (Samran Gupta)
                      6.4  USA (Erin McJeon)
                      6.5  South Korea (Juhyun Jeon)

                            fang xingdong, lee xiaodong, dykim, kspark, jackie cheng/james lee

CHAPTER 7  Half Century of the Internet 

            7.1 Toru Asami,  A personal history related to the Internet in Japan
      7.2 Srinivasan Ramani, Global catastrophe and the Internet
                       7.3 Kilnam Chon, Early internet development in the 20th century
                      7.4  Kiyong Lee, A story of a lone scholar journeying through the great world of the internet, [pdf,2023.8.19]
                      7.5  Qiheng Hu, Recalling the first 30 years of the Internet in China [English]  [Chinese]
                      7.6  Hakikur Rahman, The History and Evolution of the Internet in Bangladesh
      7.7  Okhwa Lee, Expanding educational equity by e-Learning in South Korea

                            Shigeki Goto, Michael Stanton, abhaya induruwa, nii quaynor, tan tin wee, bob kummerfeld, ll, pw, st, gh    

CHAPTER 8   Internet Museum

CHAPTER 9   Retrospective

APPENDIX A  Year Table

APPENDIX B  InternetHistory.Asia/Home Page

APPENDIX C  Regional Internet Organizations

APPENDIX D  Authors' Biographies

APPENDIX E  Computer History - East Asian Perspective 

APPENDIX F  Artificial General Intelligence

APPENDIX G Virtual Reality

APPENDIX H Recalling the first 30 years of the Internet in China (in Chinese)

Remark:  We invite articles for Chapter 6 Snapshots in the 2020s, and Chapter 7 Half Century of Internet.
Remark:  Hard copies will be published in 2026Q1 (First Edition), and 2031Q1 (Second Edition).

Revised: 2025.4.13