What's New?

2017                  Hardcopies of  First Decade(1980s) and Second Decade (1990s) are available from Amazon, and softcopies from Google Books.
2017-05-10     ICANN History Project
2017-09             Internet Society APAC Connections - September 2017 (Guest Aricle: Internet History - Asian Perspective by Kilnam Chon)
2017-10-15     Call for Papers: ARPANET (1969-1990), Internet Histories.
2018                    Luca Belli and Olga Cavalli, Internet Governance and Regulations in Latin America
2019-1               Early RFCs available from Computer History Museum
2019                    Internet Interview Projects: Internet History.Asia, Oral Internet History, Robert Mitchell/APNIC, Babbage Insitute, Computer History Museum,
                                Andrew Ure/WiWiW
2019-02-28    Kilnam Chon presented at 2019 APRICOT on Internet History Projects
2019-10-29    50th Anniversary Celebration at UCLA  [mirrored site],    ARPANET was born 50 years ago, 1969-10-29 (article). 
2020                   List of Internet Pioneer Interview Projects around the World
2020-12-08   NSFNET 35 Anniversary Celebration
2020-10-24   CSNET-Asia 35th Anniversary Celebration
2021                  Sidnedy Reed, DARPA Technical Accomplishment, An historical rein of substantial DARPA projects, IDA P-2192, February 1990. 
(2015)               Alex McKenzie, Internet, Discovery in Modern Science, pp.565-571, 2014-2015.
2022                  The oral histories of the internet and the web, Internet Histories; Digital Technologies, Culture, Society.
2022                 History of Computer Communications, ACM & Computer History Museum

Project Milestone

2011-03           Agreed to Launch Asia Internet History Project during Global INET.
2011-10           Formed Coordination Committee of Asia Internet History Projects.
2012-01           Formed Advisory Group of Asia Internet History Projects.
2011~2013      Interviewed Internet Pioneers for Video Recording (YouTube)
2013-12           Published Book 1,   A History of the Internet in Asia: First Decade (1980~1990); available from Google and Amazon
2015-02           Published Book 2,   A History of the Internet in Asia: Second Decade (1991~2000); available from Google and Amazon
2016-05           Published Book 3,   A History of the Internet in Asia: Third Decade (2001~2010); available from sec@InternetHistory.asia
2016-06           Internet History Project moved to maintenance mode with periodic updates.
2016-06~         Request for national Internet history articles on Internet Governance, Cyber Security, Online Education, Snapshots,....
2019-06           Decided to publish Asia Internet History, Fourth Decade (2010s) in 2022.
2020-01           Table of Contents of Asia Internet History, Fourth Decade (2010s)
2021-01-01   Published Book 4,  Asia Internet History, Fourth Decade (2010s), Softcopy Version 1.0 (with Hardcopy on 2021.4.8) 
2021-04           Initial Draft Table of Contents of Asia Internet History, Fifth Decade (2020s)
2024-03          Initial draft of the first edition of Asia Internet History, Fifth Decade (2020s)

Introduction

The Internet in Asia started in 1980s. We are studying on the Internet history of Asian perspective with the following objectives;

   - Record what happened from the 1980s through 2020s, and archive the relevant documents.
  - Analyze the collaboration among Asian countries and the world, and the national, the regional, and  global Internet eco-systems.

We published

        the first volume on the1980s in 2013,
        the second volume on the 1990s in 2015,
        the third volume on the 2000s in 2016, and
        the fourth volume on the 2010s in 2021.

We plan to publish the fifth volume on the 2020s as follows;

     the first edition in the 2026Q1, and
    the second edition in the 2031Q1.

We interviewed Internet leaders in Asia and the world in the 2010s, and archived the interviews in this website.

Organization

    Advisory Group - Asia

Australia        Bob Kummerfeld, Robert Elz
Bangladesh   Hakikur Rahman
Cambodia      Norbert Klein
China             Hu Daoyuan, Li Xing, Yan Baoping, Zhang Jian
Hong Kong     Nam Ng
India               Srinivasan Ramani, Madhukar Pitke
Iran                 Siavash Shahshahani
Indonesia       Jos Luhukay
Japan             Jun Murai, Shigeki Goto, Tohru Asami
Korea              Kilnam Chon, Yongjin Park, Yanghee Choi, Kyungran Kang
Malaysia         Mohamed Awang Lah, Sureswaran Ramadass
Myanmar        Wit Hmone Tin Latt
Mongol           Baasansuren Burmaa
Nepal             Gauraub Raj Upadaya
New Zealand  Brian Carpenter
Pakistan         Naveed Haq
Russia            Natalia Bulashova, Dmitry Burkov
Singapore      Lawrence Wong, Bernard Tan Tiong Gie, Tan Tin Wee
Sri Lanka       Gihan Dias, Abhaya Induruwa
Taiwan           Vincent Chen
Thailand        Kanchana Kanchanasut
Turkey           Bunyamin Atici
Vietnam         Le Thuy Cam, Vu Hoang Lien
Yemen           Walid Al-Saqaf
Asia                Ching Chiao, Daeyoung Kim, James Lee, Paul Wilson

    Advisory Group - External

Central Asia      Peter Kirstein
Pacific Islands  Save Vocea
Africa                Tarek Kamel, Pierre Dandjinou
Europe              Werner Zorn, Brian Carpenter
North America  Larry Landweber, Steve Goldstein, George Sadowsky
Latin America   Michael Stanton, Raul Echeberria

    Coordination Committee

Kilnam Chon(Chief Editor), Hu Daoyuan, Kanchana Kanchanasut, Bob Kummerfeld, Jun Murai, Lawrence Wong

    Secretariat

 Jungbae An, Kyungran Kang

    Mailing List @InternetHistory.Asia (inactive)

announce@                  Moderated mailing list
discuss@                        Most discussion takes place here.
editorial@                      For Editorial Committee
advisory@                     For All Advisory Groups
sec@                                 chonkn at gmail, anjungbae1 at gmail and korykang at gmail

  Mirroring Site:  http://internethistoryasia.jinbo.net