An Asia Internet History - Fifth Decade (2020s) - First Edition

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ACRONYMS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1   Introduction  (kindle version)

CHAPTER 2   Internet Access

                       2.1  Overview
        2.2  Users

CHAPTER 3   Digital Services

                     3.1 Introduction [ppt]
    3.2 Digital Transformation [ppt]
                    3.3 Digital Payment and Digital Currency
    3.4 Social Media
                    3.5 Artificial Intelligence [ppt]                     

CHAPTER 4   Digital Ecosystem

                     4.1 Introduction
    4.2 Internet Ecosystem [ppt]
    4.3 AI Ecosystem [ppt] 

CHAPTER 5  Global Issues and the Internet 

                    5.1  Climate, Energy and Environment
                    5.2  Existential Risks

CHAPTER 6  Snapshots of the Internet in the 2020s        

                        6.1  Nepal (Harsha Man Maharjan)
                        6.2  Japan (Kazunori Konishi)
                        6.3  India (Samiran Gupta)
                        6.4  USA (Erin McJeon)
                        6.5  South Korea (Juhyun Jeon)

CHAPTER 7  Half Century of the Internet 

              7.1  Toru Asami,  A personal history related to the Internet in Japan
            7.2  Srinivasan Ramani, Global catastrophe and the Internet
                      7.3  Kilnam Chon, Early internet development in the 20th century
                      7.4  Kiyong Lee, A story of a lone scholar journeying through the great world of the internet, [pdf,2023.8.19]
                      7.5  Qiheng Hu, Recalling the first 30 years of the Internet in China [English]  [Chinese]
                      7.6  Hakikur Rahman, The History and Evolution of the Internet in Bangladesh
            7.7  Okhwa Lee, Expanding educational equity by e-Learning in South Korea
                      7.8  Shigeru Goto,  ARPANET in 1984 and JUNET from 1984 onward
                      7.9  Abhaya Induruwa, 50 years of the Internet and 30 years of digital revolution in Sri Lanka 

CHAPTER 8   Internet Museum

CHAPTER 9   Retrospective

APPENDIX A  Year Table

APPENDIX B  InternetHistory.Asia/Home Page

APPENDIX C  Regional Internet Organizations

APPENDIX D  Authors' Biographies

APPENDIX E  Computer History - East Asian Perspective 

APPENDIX F  Toward Artificial General Intelligence

APPENDIX G Virtual Reality

APPENDIX H Recalling the first 30 years of the Internet in China (in Chinese)

Remark:  Hard copies will be published in 2026Q1 (First Edition) from Amazo, and in 2031 (Second Edition).

Revised: 2025.11.21