Year Table of Internet History of Asia and World
| Year | Asia | World |
| 1963 | Intergalactic Computer Network, Memo by Licklider |
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| 1966 | SDC-MIT/Lincoln Lab Network Expereiment | |
| 1969 |
ARPANET NWG RFC |
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| 1970 | NPL Data Communications Network | |
| 1971 | Tymnet |
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| 1972 | ARPANET Demonstration at ICCC Int'l Network Working Group (INWG) |
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| 1973 | ARPANET Extension to UK and Norway Cyclades, France |
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| 1974 |
Ethernet BBN Telenet Service |
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| 1977 1978 |
First Major TCP Internetwork Demonstration CACHE (BBS) |
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| 1979 | UUCPNET IAB (originally ICCB) |
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| 1980 | ACSNET, Australia Networks-80, India IPv4 Network Proposal (South 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) |
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| 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 | 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 |
| 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 Alipay |
| 2005 | 100 Million Internet Users in China | WSIS, Tunis YouTube |
| 2006 | DotAsia | One Billion Internet Users Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 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 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 (book, interview video) |
Announcement on IANA Transfer NETmundial, Sao Paulo Marco Civil 3 Billion Internet Users Ten ZB Data Created/Year (IDC) |
| 2015 | APSIG Internet Museum, China India: Second Largest Internet User Population |
WSIS+10 10 Billion (or 8 Billion or 13 Billion) IoT Devices(?) 1 Billion WeChat Accounts |
| 2016 |
Electronic World Trade Platform(Alibaba) | IPv6 Reaches 12% (among Google Users) IANA Transfer (2016-10-01) Mirai, First IoT DDoS |
| 2017 |
Internet Shutdown Rule in India 1 Trillion Dollar E-Commerce in China |
Netflix:100 Million Users in 190+ Countries Facebook with 2 Billion Users Digital Currencies Valued over 0.5 Trillion Dollars 4 Billion Internet Users (52% penetration) |
| 2018 |
2 Billion Internet Users | GDPR |
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| Updated:
2018-09-18 |
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