New Media

History

It is first came to light via a

scientific paper entitled
Information Management:
A Proposal,
written by Tim Berners-Lee in
March 1989.

Proposed to do away
with the arcane
computer commands,
which were then
needed to access
the new established
Internet.
Berners Lee

According to Berners Lee,

The World Wide Web is
conceive as a seamless world
in which all information from
any source, can be accessed in
a consistent and simple way.

What would it be if there's no

Web?
The internet would not be the
communication and information
medium of its today, but merely
an email messaging instrument,
which can only transmit text.

They initiated the

commercial use of online
communication via
internet.

William Torres

Rodolfo Villarica

Known as the
Grandfather and Father
of the Philippine
Internet.

Torres

became the managing

director of the National Computer
Center (May 1989/1993)
He spearheaded the campaign to
correct the Philippines to the
Internet.
His exposure to the Internet in the
US led Torres to seek backing of
DOST.

Led by the DOSTs Glen Sipin, A

technical committee composed of

computer enthusiasts and those
four school was formed to study the
possibility of an academic internet
connection.
July 1993, Phi8lnet Phase 1 was
established through a link to
Australia Victoria University.

October

1993,
the
technical
committee proposed that a Philippine
Internet backbone and nodes to
established to reduce the cost of
linking
the
country
to
the
information super highway.
Dr. Rodolfo Villarica appointed to be
the administration of Philnet Phase
2. The project cost Php 12.5 million.

Under Villaricas helm, Philnet Phase 2

linked UPD, ADMU, DLSU and USC in

Cebu giving them full access to the
internet via a 64 kbps connection to
the US.
Willy Gan oif Comet, a private
computer networking firm was tapped
by IRF to set up the link using a Cisco
Model 7000 router and PLDT teased
line.

March 24, 1994 at 10;18 am

this link was successfully

launched.
The Exponent Growth of the
Internet came after the
passage of Republic Act No.
7925
or
1995
Public
Telecommunication Act of the
Philippines.

Republic Act No. 7925

Under this law, telecommunication

firms could after Value Added

Services without the need for a
congressional franchise.

July

1997, PLDT launched the

Philippine Internet Exchange (PhilX)
The first five (5) ISPS that joined
PhilX
were
Infocom,
Nosaic
Communication, IPhil Communications,
Virtual Link and WordTel Philppines.
1998,
the Philippines Network
Foundation put up a second internet
exchanged to enable ISPs that have
leased lines from non-PLDT.

In 2013 the Philippines was

dubbed as the Social
Capital Media of the World
because of the percentage
of Facebook users among
Internet users.