Year Table
Year Table of Internet History of Asia and World
Year
Asia
World
1978
CACHE (BBS)
1980
1983
UUCPNET/Usenet in Asia, South Korea
CSNET in Asia (Israel)
1985
Pacific Computer Comm. Symposium (PCCS)
1986
Int'l Academic NetWorkshop-AsiaPacific
Joint Workshop on Computer Communications
SDN Workshop (changed to WCCW, SWCC)
1989
PAcific Computer COMm Project (PACCOM)
Int'l Academic NetWorkshop (IANW), Sydney
1993
1998
1999
First ICANN Meeting, Singapore
Remote Intercontinental Class (USA-Japan)
Alibaba, China
Tencent, China
SayClub, and Cyworld, South Korea
2000
Trans-Eurasia Information Network(TEIN)
APOPS
AP* Retreat
Baidu, C hina
Chinese Domain Name Consortium (CDNC)
2007
SIGCOMM, Kyoto
Smart Phone (iPhone)
Android OS
2008
2009
100 Million Websites with Apache
Uber
One ZB Data/Year (IDC)
2011
IPv4 Exhaustion at IANA
2 Million Monthly New Malware Samples (McAfee)
2013
One Billion Messaging Users in Asia
2014
World Internet Conference, Wuzhen, China
NETmundial, Sao Paulo
3 Billion Internet Users
Ten ZB Data Created/Year (IDC)
2015
India: Second Largest Internet User Population
8 Billion IoT Devices (or 10 Billion or 13 Billion )
2020
Central Bank Digital Currency - Cambodia, China
2023
Generative AI in Asia (China, Japan, Korea,...)
AI in wars (Ukraine, Gaza,...)
Low-Earth Orbital Satellites (Starlink) in military applications
2024
2nd AI Safety Summit, Seoul
Abuse of AI in elections (USA,...)
NVIDEA (AI hardware and software; H800,...)
TSMC with 3 nanometer chips (with 1.6 nanometer chips in 2026)
2025
RightsCon, Seoul
2027
2028
2029
2030
2031
Updated 2024-04-26