A brief history of the Philippine Internet.

2.  August 1986: The first Philippine-based, public-access BBS [bulletin board system],
First-Fil RBBS went online with an annual subscription fee of P1,000. A precursor
to the local online forum, it ran an open-source BBS software on an IBM XT
Clone PC with a 1200bps modem and was operated by Dan Angeles and Ed
Castañeda.
 1987: The Philippine FidoNet Exchange, a local network for communication between
several BBSes in Metro Manila, was formed.
 1990: A committee helmed by Arnie del Rosario of the Ateneo Computer
Technology Center was tasked with exploring the possibility of creating an
academic network comprised of universities and government institutions by the
National Computer Center under Dr. William Torres. Recommendations were
made but not implemented.
 1991-1993: Emergence of email gateways and services in the Philippines, including
some from multinational companies like Intel, Motorola, and Texas Instruments,
which used a direct Internet connection, X.25, or UCCP protocol. Local firms
ETPI, Philcom, and PLDT also operated commercial X.25 networks. Another
milestone: Local and international email to Fido Net users was introduced.

3.  June 1993
 With the support of the Department of Science and Technology and the
Industrial Research Foundation, the Phil net project (now PHNET) was born.
 The Phil net technical committee, composed of computer buffs working at the DOST and
representatives from the Ateneo de Manila University (Richie Lozada and Arnie del
Rosario), De La Salle University (Kelsey Hartigan-Go), University of the Philippines
Diliman (Rodel Atanacio and Rommel Feria), and University of the Philippines Los
Baños, would eventually play a significant role in connecting the Philippines to the World
Wide Web.
 July 1993: Phase one of the Philnet project shifted into full gear after receiving funding
from the DOST was proven to be successful, as students from partner universities
were able to send emails to the Internet by routing them through Philnet's gateway
at the Ateneo, which was connected to another gateway at the Victoria University
of Technology in Australia.
 November 1993: An additional P12.5-million grant for the first year's running cost was
awarded by the DOST to buy equipment and lease communication lines needed to
kick start the second phase of Phil net, now led by Dr. Rudy Villarica.

4.  March 29, 1994: Benjie Tan, who was working for ComNet, a
company that supplied Cisco routers to the Philnet project,
established the Philippine's first connection to the Internet at a PLDT
network center in Makati City.
 University of the Philippines Diliman, Ateneo de Manila University, De
la Salle University and the University of San Carlos became part of the
network that became first connected to the Internet via CISCO 7000 in
Makati.
 June 1994: Mosaic Communications (MozCom) became the first
commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the Philippines.
 March 1995: Republic Act 7925, known as the Public
Telecommunications Act of the Philippines, was passed. This allowed
telecom companies offering value added services to operate without a
congressional franchise.

5.  Circa 1996
 Entry of foreign ISPs in the Philippines such as Asia Online, a
HongKong-based online service, and Pacific Internet, a Singapore-based
ISP that acquired Philworld.
 Bayantel and Sky Internet teamed up to provide the United Network
Access (UNA).
 The Philippine Internet Services Organization (PISO) was established.
 January 1996: Epicnet, Mail and GSI went online.
 June 1996: Connected to Cisco 7000 in Makati: Cebu, Zamboanga,
Sorsogon, Davao, Bacolod, Legaspi, Naga.
 Late 1996: Establishment of the Philippine Internet Exchange (PHIX)

6.  Circa 1997
 The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimated that there were
approximately 85,000 Internet users in the Philippines in 1997.
 ABS-CBN went online through its ABS-CBN Interactive Web site, as
well as GMA Network by tying up with Web quest and coming up with
GMANetwork.com.
 Major broadsheets such as Businessworld Online, Manila Bulletin,
Philippine Star, Manila Times and the Philippine Daily Inquirer went
online.
 Philippine cybermags sprung up: 1969, Internet World Philippines, The
Web Philippines and Link.
 August 1997: There were 1090 PH domains.
 December 1998: The first Philippine Webby Awards was launched.

7.  http://digitalfilipino.com/a-collectors-item-philippine-
internet-review-10-years-of-internet-
history-1994-2004/
 http://www.msc.edu.ph/wired/timeline.html
 https://ph.news.yahoo.com/timeline-philippine-
internet-20th-anniversary-
225454753.html