The document summarizes the history of internet access in the Philippines from 1991-1998. It describes how multinational corporations first accessed the internet in 1991-1993. Dr. William Torres spearheaded connecting the Philippines to the internet through the PhilNet project in 1991-1993. On March 29, 1994, Benjie Tan established the Philippines' first connection to the internet through a PLDT network center. Internet service improved in 1997-1998 when PLDT launched the Philippine Internet Exchange to interconnect local ISPs and PHNet connected to Japan's Pacific Network for faster international access.

1. PHILIPPINE INTERNET
A B R I E F HI S TOR Y
Even before Mozaic Communications introduced the Internet to the
Philippine market in 1994, there were earlier pioneers of technology…

2. 1991-1993
• The Internet was first accessed in the Philippines by
private multinational corporations such as Intel,
Motorola and Texas instruments in order to
communicate with mother companies in the United
States.
• By 1993, public email access was made available via
PLDT (Philippine Long Distance Call) & Philcom Internet
stations which allowed subscribers to connect to AT&T
using the American CompuServe as their Internet
Service Provider (ISP)

3. 1991-1993
• Dr. William Torres, the managing director of the National
Computer Center, was one of the people who
spearheaded the campaign to connect the Philippines
to the internet. He sought for the DOST (Department of
Science and Technology) Undersecretary William
Padolina for initial funding of the PhilNet project.
• The Philnet technical committee, composed of
representatives from ADMU(Richie Lozada and Arnie del
Rosario), DLSU (Kelsey Hartigan-Go), UP Diliman (Rodel
Atanacio and Rommel Feria), and UP Los Baños, would
also eventually play a significant role in connecting the
Philippines to the World Wide Web.

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.
• "We're in," Dr. John Brule, a Professor Emeritus in
Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Syracuse
University, announced at The First International E-Mail
Conference at the University of San Carlos in Talamban,
Cebu, signifying that Philnet's 64 kbit/s connection was
live.

5. 1997-1998
• The internet service improved significantly in the country
when PLDT had launched the Philippine Internet
Exchange (PhIX) in July 1997. This enabled a network
access point that interconnected local ISPs. The first 5
that joined were Infocom Technolodies, Mosaic
Communications, Iphil Communications, Virtual Link and
WorldTel Philippines
• In 1998, the PHNet connected to Japan’s advanced
Pacific Network (APAN) to provide faster internet
communications between the Philippines and other
countries in near that area.

6. SOURCES
• Internet 101: The New Mass Medium for Filipinos
• https://ph.news.yahoo.com/timeline-philippine-internet-
20th-anniversary-225454753.html