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���Workshop on Origin of the internet ����Early Development of Internet �- Asian Perspective - �

2022.11.06~07

Kilnam Chon

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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1950s~1960s – Beginning of Computer Communications

Many computer communications projects in 1960s

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Licklider, Intergalactic computer network, 1963

(Mobile Communications)

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(Optical Communications)

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1960s~1980s – ARPANET Project

  • And Many other computer network projects in the world

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1980s – Beginning of the Internet in Asia

  • Australia – ACSNET in 1980
  • Japan – N1 Net in 1981
  • South Korea – IPv4 Network (SDN) in 1982
  • UUCPNET/Usenet, and CSNET in Asia, 1983
  • First Internet Conference, PCCS in Seoul, 1985
  • Morris Worm in 1988
  • PACCOM/NSFNET in late 1980s

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1990s – Proliferation of the Internet

  • WWW
  • Internet Organizations in Asia; APNG and its Spinoffs, and More;

APNIC, APTLD, APAN, APCERT, APRICOT,….

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  • ICANN and Internet Governance

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  • More organizations; Global, Domain specific, Regional, National,…

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2000s – Globalization of the Internet

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  • 2 billion Internet users in the world (29% penetration) in 2010.

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  • China with Largest Number of Internet Users in 2008 �(with India as the second largest in 2015)

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2010s

  • 5.5 Billion Internet Users in 2022 (70% of the global population)

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  • Trillion dollar Internet companies in 2019;

Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google

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  • Internet AI�

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2020s

  • 5.5 billion internet users out of 8 billion global population.

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  • Low-Earth Orbital Satellite Constellation for the Internet

USA, Multi-National (UK, Canada,..), China

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  • Metaverse, Non Fungible Token (NFT), Web3

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Appendix Digital Civilization – my comment

- Most people with the internet access (5.5 billion in 2022)

- Digital asset

- Side/negative effects

- US role, Asian role,…

- One global internet or fragmented internet

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Bibliography

Asia Internet History, 1st Decade (1980s)~4th Decade (2010s), 2013~2021.

https:InternetHistory.asia (or https:InternetHistoryAsia.jinbo.net)

K. Chon, Early internet development, Asia Internet History, 5th Decade (2020s), 2022.

Council of Foreign Relations, Confronting reality in cyberspace, 2022.

InternetWorldStats.com, 2022.

B. Leiner, et al., A brief history of the internet, ACM, 2009.

J. Licklider, Intergalactic computer network, BBN, 1962.

Stanford University, US-China, technological decoupling and dependency, 2022.

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