Year Table - Asia Internet History Projects

Year Table of Internet History of Asia and World

Year	Asia	World
1963		Intergalactic Computer Network by Licklider SDC-SRI Network Experiment
1966		SDC-MIT/Lincoln Lab Network Expereiment
1969		ARPANET NWG RFC
1970		NPL Data Communications Network
1971		Tymnet
1972		ARPANET Demonstration at ICCC Int'l Network Working Group (INWG)
1973		ARPANET Extension to UK and Norway Cyclades, France
1974		Ethernet BBN Telenet Service
1977 1978		First Major TCP Internetwork Demonstration CACHE (BBS)
1979		UUCPNET IAB (originally ICCB)
1980	ACSNET, Australia Networks-80, India IPv4 Network Development Proposal (S.Korea)	Usenet 4000~5000 Users with Over 66 Nodes (ARPANET)
1981	N1net, Japan Contacts to CSNET, UUCPNET (South Korea)	CSNET BITNET
1982	IPv4 Network (SDN), South Korea	International Academic NetWorkshop (IANW)
1983	UUCPNET/Usenet in Asia, South Korea CSNET in Asia (Israel)	IPv4 Deployment Separation of MILNET from ARPANET MCImail
1984	NUS/UNESCO Workshop, Singapore AsiaNet	JANET, UK FidoNet
1985	BITNET in Asia, Japan	DNS Deployment Pacific Computer Comm. Symposium (PCCS) 2000 Hosts
1986	ccTLDs in Asia Int'l Academic NetWorkshop-AsiaPacific Joint Workshop on Computer Communications SDN Workshop (changed to WCCW, SWCC)	IETF NSFNET Interop Commercial IP Routers (Cisco, Proteon) Brain (computer virus)
1987		10,000 Hosts Connected to Internet Commercial Internet Service Provider (UUnet)
1988	WIDE Project	Morris Worm CCIRN Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) CERT Coordination Center
1989	PAcific Computer COMm Project (PACCOM) Int'l Academic NetWorkshop (IANW), Sydney Commercial ISP (Pegasus, Australia)	100,000 Hosts Connected to Internet
1990	IP Meeting, Japan (changed to Internet Week)	ARPANET Phaseout WWW 3 Million Internet Users
1991	APNG (orignally APCCIRN) CAREN (Consortium of Asian R&E Network)	INET, Copenhagen
1992	INET, Kobe	Internet Society One Million Computers Connected to Internet Mosaic RIPE NCC
1993	JPNIC (originally JNIC) APNIC Pilot Project IETF RFC (Japan, South Korea)	InterNIC NIST Approval of TCP/IP as GOSIP Alternative eBay
1994	Interop, Tokyo Broadband Network Project, South Korea	WWW Consortium (W3C) NANOG Yahoo! Amazon
1995	APNIC APIA AI3 APII	NSFNET Phaseout Windows95 (with TCP/IP)
1996	APRICOT, Singapore	Internet World Exposition International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC) Internet2 @Home
1997	APAN TransPac Project M Root Server, Japan ThruNet, South Korea Naver, South Korea	STAR TAP Google
1998	APTLD (originally APccTLD) APBioNet Singapore-MIT Alliance(Remote Class)	Int'l Forum on the White Paper (IFWP) ICANN US-EU Safe Harbor Agreement
1999	First ICANN Meeting, Singapore Remote Intercontinental Class (USA-Japan) Alibaba, China Tencent, China SayClub, and Cyworld, South Korea	IPv6 Deployment Napster
2000	Trans-Eurasia Information Network(TEIN) APOPS AP* Retreat Baidu, China Chinese Domain Name Consortium (CDNC) 100 Million Internet Users in Asia	GEANT IETF IDN WG Multilingual Internet Name Consortium
2001	School on Internet (SOI) Asia Asia PKI Consortium (originally Asia PKI Forum)	Wikipedia
2002	APCERT APNG Camp, Bangkok IETF, Yokohama Silk Programme	100 Million Internet Users
2003	SANOG	SQL Slammer Worm WSIS, Geneva
2004	GLORIAD (China, Russia, South Korea,...)	GLORIAD Facebook Alipay
2005	100 Million Internet Users in China	WSIS, Tunis YouTube
2006	DotAsia	One Billion Internet Users Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Twitter Wikileaks AWS (Amazon)
2007	SIGCOMM, Kyoto	Smart Phone (iPhone) Android OS
2008	AsiaFI.net IGF, Hyderabad Africa Asia Forum on Network Res. & Eng. China: Largest Internet User Population (220m)	OIC-CERT Blockchain and Bitcoin
2009	Interop, Mumbai Weibo, China Central Asia Res. & Edu. Network (CAREN)	100 Million Websites with Apache WhatsApp Uber One ZB Data/Year (IDC)
2010	APrIGF APIX Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA)	Stuxnet IDN TLD
2011	One Billion Internet Users in Asia IPv4 Exhaustion at APNIC Asia Internet History Project	Two Billion Internet Users IPv4 Exhaustion at IANA Cyberspace Conference, London 2 Million Monthly New Malware Samples (McAfee)
2012	DiDi Chuxing, China	WCIT-2012, Geneva Facebook with One Billion Users
2013	One Billion Messaging Users in Asia Alipay: largest mobile payment platform	Snowden Revelations One Billion Messaging Users in the World 200,000 Daily New Malware Samples (Kaspersky) One Billion Smartphones/Year
2014	World Internet Conference, Wuzhen, China Korea Internet History	NETmundial, Sao Paulo Marco Civil 3 Billion Internet Users Ten ZB Data Created/Year (IDC)
2015	APSIG India: Second Largest Internet User Population	10 Billion (or 8 Billion or 13 Billion) IoT Devices 1 Billion WeChat Accounts
2016	Electronic World Trade Platform(Alibaba)	IANA Transfer (2016-10-01) Mirai, First IoT DDoS
2017	Internet Shutdown Rule in India 1 Trillion Dollar E-Commerce in China	Netflix with 100 Million Users Facebook with 2 Billion Users Digital Currencies Valued over 0.5 Trillion Dollars 4 Billion Internet Users (52% penetration)
2018	2 Billion Internet Users in Asia	GDPR Verisign - Market Capitalization over $20 Billion
2019	5G Deployment (China,South Korea)	5G Deployment (USA, UK, Germany) Trillion Dollar Companies (Apple, MS; Google, Amazon)
2020	Digital Currency Electronic Payment(DCEP), China	Digital Currency Electronic Payment(DCEP), China Digital Tax
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