Editing History of the Internet (section)

====Asia and Oceania====
The [[APNIC|Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)]], headquartered in Australia, manages IP address allocation for the continent. APNIC sponsors an operational forum, the Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT).<ref>{{cite web |date=May 4, 2009 |title=APRICOT webpage |url=http://www.apricot.net/ |access-date=May 28, 2009 |publisher=Apricot.net}}</ref>

In South Korea, VDSL, a last mile technology developed in the 1990s by NextLevel Communications, connected corporate and consumer copper-based telephone lines to the Internet.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://article.wn.com/view/2000/09/11/Next_Level_Communications_Inc_Next_Level_Announces_Purchase_/ |title=Next Level Communications, Inc. - Next Level Announces Purchase Order For DSL Equipment in South Korea From Hansol Electronics |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=September 11, 2000  |publisher=[[Business Wire]] |access-date=December 20, 2022}}</ref>

The People's Republic of China established its first TCP/IP college network, [[Tsinghua University]]'s TUNET in 1991. The PRC went on to make its first global Internet connection in 1994, between the Beijing Electro-Spectrometer Collaboration and [[Stanford University]]'s Linear Accelerator Center. However, China went on to implement its own digital divide by implementing a country-wide [[Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China|content filter]].<ref>{{cite web |title=A brief history of the Internet in China |url=http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;854351844;pp;2;fp;2;fpid;1 |access-date=December 25, 2005 |work=China celebrates 10 years of being connected to the Internet |archive-date=October 21, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021161952/http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;854351844;pp;2;fp;2;fpid;1  }}</ref>

Japan hosted the annual meeting of the [[Internet Society]], INET'92, in [[Kobe]]. Singapore developed [[TechNet (computer network)|TECHNET]] in 1990, and Thailand gained a global Internet connection between Chulalongkorn University and UUNET in 1992.<ref>{{cite web |title=Internet History in Asia |url=http://www.apan.net/meetings/busan03/cs-history.htm  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060201035514/http://apan.net/meetings/busan03/cs-history.htm |archive-date=February 1, 2006 |access-date=December 25, 2005 |work=16th APAN Meetings/Advanced Network Conference in Busan}}</ref>