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

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

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

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

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

flat domain names: ait.th, chula.th, sritrang.th stable operation memberships

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

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

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

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

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

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