Publish A53

1. Internet in the
Philippines
Angelica Gaite

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

3. 1987
The Philippine FidoNet
Exchange was formed

4. 1993
With 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}

5. established the Philippine's first connection to
the Internet at a PLDT network
1994
Benjie Tan, who was working for ComNet, a company
that supplied Cisco routers to the Philnet project

6. Opened its doors to
the Filipinos
March 29 1995
{free & open web}