1. Ten Years of Thailand Internet by Kanchana Kanchanasut Asian Institute of Technology

2. Pre- 1991 University of Melbourne -- Robert Elz Asian Institute of Technology, 1986 – Finn Augesen, Norway –Tomonori Kimura, Japan – Kanchana Kanchanasut, Thailand

3. Working condition No PABX Poor telephone lines X29 -- VT100 ==> mailboxes in Norway, Melbourne and Tokyo

4. UUCP End of 1987, first SUN Workstation UUCP connections with University of Melbourne, University of Tokyo, INRIA and UUNET (Rick Adams) Mid 1988,.th registered + IP Addresses

5. ACSnet Australian IDP donated ACSnet to Prince of Songkhla University (VAX), July or August1987 Chula (VAX), AIT (SUN), Thammasart- Rangsit (NCR) Two gateways: AIT and PSU AIT calls UUNET but Melbourne Uni calls AIT for ACSnet

6. 1988-1991 flat domain names: ait.th, chula.th, sritrang.th stable operation memberships

7. People AIT -- Tomonori Kimura and Kanchana Chula -- Yunyong Teng-Amnuay PSU -- Aj. Vuthipong and Nittida + 2nd generation technical people -- Pensri (AIT), Passakorn (Chula)

8. 1991 soc.culture.thai: a meeting place where we met Trin Tansetthi membership strategy: encouraged new comers to set up own node --> Thaweesak Koanantrakool of Thammasart U, Kraisorn Jitthorntham, Chaingmai University Networking Workshop at AIT in December, 1991

9. 1992 Military problem in May: TU became the third gateway to ACSnet Middle 1992, Chula had its first leased line connection to UUNET which was shared by all of us More members: ABAC, Mahidol University Thaisarn was formed

10. TCSnet --> Two Academic Networks Thaisarn --> 1, 2 and 3 ThaiNet (Chula, Chiangmai and AIT) --> UNINET AIT was the only IX for the two academic networks

11. 1995 Commercial Internet: Internet Thailand and KSC Communication Authority of Thailand has granted 16 or more ISP licenses

12. Life at AIT TCSnet (1988).th registration AI3 (1995) APAN (1997) E-learning Hub for the region