The Internet user population was around 4,000~5,000 with over 66 nodes in 1980. The number of nodes increased to 250 nodes in 1983 after the transition from NCP to TCP/IP at ARPANET took place on 1983.1.1 [Hauben 1998; Postel 1981]. The Internet user population had grown to over three billion by 2015.
The Internet services cover almost every aspects of human activities by now, and the Internet is becoming a critical global social infrastructure. The Internet has started to connect devices in addition to human and we expect a trillion devices to be connected to the Internet by 2020s in addition to around seven billon users. Unfortunately, we have not solved the fundamental weakness of the Internet, security problems.
Asia has over 50% of the global Internet users now, and plays a major role on the Internet industry along USA now [Internet 2011; Alexa 2013]. Unfortunately, Asia has not played major roles in either of technical community and academic community of the Internet including the Internet standardization, the Internet governance, and the Internet research publications.
Asia finally started to lead the global Internet community through the mobile Internet service including mobile messaging services. Many of the mobile messaging services were developed and serviced in Asia including WeChat, LINE and KakaoTalk in addition to Viber. They are increasingly becoming a new platform replacing WWW and the traditional Social Networking Service, and new services based on the mobile messaging services are being developed.
We hope to see Asia to contribute fair share on the Internet including research and development and governance among others in the coming years. We started to write Asia Internet history, but we ended up to write an Internet history from an Asian perspective due to the fact that there are no good recording of the international collaboration of the global Internet development including International Academic Networkshop (IANW) in 1980s, and Interntional Network Conference (INET) and Developing Country Workshop in 1990s. Additionally, we covered all regional Internet histories of the five continents as well as many subregional Internet histories including Arab states (West Asia and North Africa) and the Pacific Islands in addition to many local Internet histories in Asia. We hope these efforts encourage many to write more comprehensive regional, subregional and local Internet histories in the coming years.
The Internet services cover almost every aspects of human activities by now, and the Internet is becoming a critical global social infrastructure. The Internet has started to connect devices in addition to human and we expect a trillion devices to be connected to the Internet by 2020s in addition to around seven billon users. Unfortunately, we have not solved the fundamental weakness of the Internet, security problems.
Asia has over 50% of the global Internet users now, and plays a major role on the Internet industry along USA now [Internet 2011; Alexa 2013]. Unfortunately, Asia has not played major roles in either of technical community and academic community of the Internet including the Internet standardization, the Internet governance, and the Internet research publications.
Asia finally started to lead the global Internet community through the mobile Internet service including mobile messaging services. Many of the mobile messaging services were developed and serviced in Asia including WeChat, LINE and KakaoTalk in addition to Viber. They are increasingly becoming a new platform replacing WWW and the traditional Social Networking Service, and new services based on the mobile messaging services are being developed.
We hope to see Asia to contribute fair share on the Internet including research and development and governance among others in the coming years. We started to write Asia Internet history, but we ended up to write an Internet history from an Asian perspective due to the fact that there are no good recording of the international collaboration of the global Internet development including International Academic Networkshop (IANW) in 1980s, and Interntional Network Conference (INET) and Developing Country Workshop in 1990s. Additionally, we covered all regional Internet histories of the five continents as well as many subregional Internet histories including Arab states (West Asia and North Africa) and the Pacific Islands in addition to many local Internet histories in Asia. We hope these efforts encourage many to write more comprehensive regional, subregional and local Internet histories in the coming years.
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