Brief History of the Internet

August 1986
- The first Philippine based public access bulletin board system went online with an annual
subscription fee of 1000
1989
- EMC became the country's first internet service provider via unix to unix protocol
December 1990
- cyberbayan.org became the first Philippine website and discussion
1991
- Roberto Verzola Email Center provides email services to NGO
1991 to 1993
- convergence of email gateways and services in the Philippines including sample the
multinational companies like Intel motorola and texas instruments which uses a direct internet
connectionby x.25 or UNIX to UNIX. Local ETPI, PhilCom, PLDT.
June 1993
- with the support of DOST and the industrialist research foundation the Philnet (PHNET) Project
was born
July 1993
-phase 1 of the pill net project shifted into full gear it proved to be successful asa student from the
partner University were able to send email to the Internet by routing them through Philnet gate at the
Ateneo de Manila University which was connected to another gateway at the Victoria University of
Technology Australia via idd dial up case modem.
March 29 1994 at exactly 1:15 in the morning
- Benjie Tan first connection to the Internet at the pldt network Center in Makati City
- The Philippine router a Cisco 7000 was attached by a services of Pldt and sprint communication
to the sprint router at Stockton California
June 1994
-mosaic communication became the first commercial internet service provider in the Philippines
August 1994
-mosaic communication became the first commercial ISP to provide true continuous TCP IP based
connectivity
March 1995
-republic act 7925 known as the telecommunications act of the Philippines
1996
-the entry of foreign isp in the country bayan tele and sky internet team up to provide the united
network access or una
1997
-85000 internet users in the country
abs-cbn went online through ABS CBN Interactive website as well as GMA network by tying up with
web quest
August 1997
- there were at least 1090Philippine domains
May 5, 2000
- I love you virus
August 18, 2012
- smart launches the first commercial fourth generation mobile broadband service running on
LTE technology LTE service capable of delivering data wirelessly at a speed of up to 42 Mbps
September 12, 2012
-the cyber crime prevention act of 2012, officially recorded as RA 10175, a law in the country that
needs to address the legal issues concerning on the interaction and internet.
April 13, 2016
- smart launches the LTE-A advance in the country, in Boracay Aklan. Can reach 250 mbps
June 2016
-54 million internet users or 52.6 percent of the population according to the International
Telecommunications Union