Internet in thePhilippines

Angelica Gaite

August 1986The first Philippine-based, public-access BBS [bulletin board system]

1987The Philippine FidoNet Exchange was formed

1993With the support of the Department of

Science and Technology and the Industrial Research Foundation, the Philnet project (now PHNET) was born.

{Composed of representatives from ADMU, DLSU, and UP}

established the Philippine's first connection to the Internet at a PLDT network  Benjie Tan, who was working for ComNet, a

company that supplied Cisco routers to the Philnet project19

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March 29 1995

Opened its doors to the Filipinos

{free & open web}