Year Table

Asia

World

Intergalactic Computer Network(article)  by Licklider

SDC-MIT/Lincoln Lab Network Expereiment 

ARPANET

NWG

RFC 

NPL Data Communications Network 

Tymnet

ARPANET Demonstration at ICCC

Int'l Network Working Group (INWG) 

 InterNIC

ARPANET Extension to UK and Norway

Cyclades, France 

Ethernet

BBN Telenet Service 

First Major TCP Internetwork Demonstration 

CACHE (BBS) 

UUCPNET

IAB (originally ICCB) 

ACSNET, Australia

Networks-80, India

IPv4 Network Development Proposal (South Korea) 

Usenet

4000~5000 Users with Over 66 Nodes (ARPANET) 

Minitel

N1net, Japan

CSNET contacted (South Korea) 

CSNET

BITNET 

IPv4 Network (SDN), South Korea 

International Academic NetWorkshop (IANW) 

UUCPNET/Usenet in Asia, South Korea

CSNET in Asia (Israel) 

IPv4 Deployment

Separation of MILNET from ARPANET

MCImail 

NUS/UNESCO Workshop, Singapore

AsiaNet 

JANET, UK

FidoNet 

BITNET in Asia, Japan

Pacific Computer Comm. Symposium (PCCS) 

DNS Deployment

Pacific Computer Comm. Symposium (PCCS)

2000 Hosts 

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) 

10,000 Hosts Connected to Internet

Commercial Internet Service Provider (UUnet) 

WIDE Project 

Morris Worm

CCIRN

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)

CERT Coordination Center 

PAcific Computer COMm Project (PACCOM)

Int'l Academic NetWorkshop (IANW), Sydney

Commercial ISP (Pegasus, Australia) 

100,000 Hosts Connected to Internet

FIRST 

IP Meeting, Japan (changed to Internet Week) 

ARPANET Phaseout

WWW

3 Million Internet Users 

APNG (orignally APCCIRN)

CAREN (Consortium of Asian R&E Network) 

INET, Copenhagen   

INET, Kobe 

Internet Society

Internet with  Million Computers 

Mosaic

RIPE NCC 

JPNIC (originally JNIC)

APNIC Pilot Project

IETF RFC  ( Japan , South Korea ) 

KRNET

eBay

NIST Approval of TCP/IP as GOSIP Alternative 

InterOp

Interop, Tokyo

Broadband Network Project, South Korea 

WWW Consortium (W3C)

NANOG

Yahoo!

Amazon 

APNIC

APIA 

AI3

APII 

NSFNET Phaseout

Windows95 (with TCP/IP) 

APRICOT , Singapore 

Internet World Exposition

International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC)  

Internet2

@Home 

APAN

TransPac Project

M Root Server, Japan

ThruNet, South Korea

Naver, South Korea 

STAR TAP

Google 

APTLD  (originally APccTLD)

APBioNet

Singapore-MIT Alliance(Remote Class)  

Int'l Forum on the White Paper (IFWP)

ICANN

US-EU Safe Harbor Agreement 

First ICANN Meeting, Singapore

Remote Intercontinental Class (USA-Japan)

Alibaba, China

Tencent, China

SayClub, and Cyworld, South Korea 

IPv6 Deployment

Napster   

Trans-Eurasia Information Network(TEIN)

APOPS

AP* Retreat

Baidu, C hina

Chinese Domain Name Consortium (CDNC)

GEANT

IETF IDN WG

School on Internet (SOI) Asia

Asia PKI Consortium 

Wikipedia 

APCERT

APNG Camp , Bangkok

IETF, Yokohama

Silk Programme 

100 Million Internet Users 

SANOG 

SQL Slammer Worm

WSIS, Geneva 

GLORIAD

Facebook 

Alipay 

100 Million Internet Users in China 

WSIS, Tunis

YouTube 

DotAsia 

One Billion Internet Users

Internet Governance Forum (IGF)

Twitter

Wikileaks

AWS (Amazon) 

SIGCOMM, Kyoto

Smart Phone (iPhone)

Android OS 

IGF, Hyderabad  

Africa Asia Forum on Network R & Eng

China: Largest Internet Users (220m) 

Blockchain and Bitcoin

OIC-CERT

Airbnb 

Interop, Mumbai

Weibo, China

Central Asia R&D Network (CAREN) 

100 Million Websites with Apache

WhatsApp

Uber

One ZB Data/Year (IDC) 

APrIGF

APIX

Asia Cloud Computing Assoc. (ACCA) 

KakaoTalk

Stuxnet

IDN TLD 

2010 Flash Crash

One Billion Internet Users in Asia

IPv4 Exhaustion at APNIC

Asia Internet History Project 

WeChat

Two Billion Internet Users

IPv4 Exhaustion at IANA

Cyberspace Conference, London

2 Million Monthly New Malware Samples (McAfee)  

DiDi Chuxing, China 

Douyin (TikTok) by ByteDance, China

WCIT-2012 , Geneva

TikTok

Facebook with One Billion Users 

One Billion Messaging Users in Asia

Snowden Revelations

One Billion Messaging Users in the World

One Billion Smartphones/Year 

World Internet Conference, Wuzhen, China

Korea Internet History Project 

NETmundial, Sao Paulo

3 Billion Internet Users

Ten ZB Data Created/Year (IDC) 

India: Second Largest Internet User Population

8 Billion  IoT Devices (or  10 Billion  or  13 Billion )

1 Billion WeChat Accounts 

AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol

Aadhaar Act, India

IANA Transfer (2016-10-01)

Mirai, First IoT DDoS 

Internet Shutdown Rule in India

1 Trillion-Dollar E-Commerce in China 

2 Billion Facebook Users

4 Billion Internet Users  (52% penetration)

WannaCry Malware 

2 Billion Internet Users in Asia 

GDPR 

5G Deployment   (China, South Korea) 

5G Deployment (USA, UK, Germany; China, South Korea)

Trillion Dollar Companies (Apple, MS; Google, Amazon) 

Central Bank Digital Currency  - Cambodia,  China

EU:   Digital Market Acts,  Digital Service Acts

2 Billion WhatsApp Users

Central Bank Digital Currency - Cambodia, China

Single's Day  (2021.11.11 ) with $139 Billion Online Sale - China

Starlink

Bitcoin, Trillion Dollar Market Value 

Starlink service in Asia 

Generative AI(Open AI, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, xAI,...)

Generative AI in East Asia 

AI in wars (Ukraine, Gaza,...)

Low-Earth Orbital Satellites (Starlink) in military app.

TikTok banned in USA

 Abuse of AI in elections (USA,...)

NVIDEA ($3 Trillion Market Capitalization)

TSMC with 3 nanometer chips (with 1.6 nano in 2026)

AI Act - Final Version (EU)

Deep Seek

Meta plans around-the-world fiber at $10B

Asia Internet History, Fifth Decade (2020s)- First Edition (with Final Edition in 2031)