The development of Internet in Malaysia Essay

The development of Internet in Malaysia began in 1983 when Mohamed Awanglah, who is the Malaysia's first netizen, started working on the idea of the Malaysian Connection with the world through the Internet at University Malaya's laboratory. He was a academic member in Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University Malaya. He has made a similar Internet connection at the end of the year 1984 when he was seconded (support) to the Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic System (MIMOS) . The development of MIMOS by the government gave the much needed moral booster for Malaysia's Information Technology (IT) innovators to create a much more improved Internet connection.
The Malaysian Computer Network (RangKom) was established by Mohamed Awanglah 1986, who have made a small computer network with only four dial-up MAYPAC (Malaysian Packet Switched Public Data Network Services) lines to Korea, America, Australia and Netherlands. This Rangkom have been linked to four main Universities in Malaysia, they are the University of Malaya (UM), the University of Science Malaysia (USM), University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and the University of Technology Malaysia (UTM).
In the year of 1990, the Malaysia's first Commercial internet had began when the Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems MIMOS now also known as MIMOS Berhad launched Jaring ( Joint Advanced Integrated Networking), the first Malaysian Internet Service Provider (ISP) . During the Sixth Malaysia Plan season (1991-1995) , JARING was connected to the Internet successfully. It was not until 1992, nevertheless, the satellite link installation between Malaysian government has been a concerned supporter of internet technology since the early nineties, and has employed a variety of policies to support the Malaysian businesses to do busniness or venture online. It have also been invested in a very large projects such as the Multimedia Super Corridor, which is a 50km area stretching north from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) which have been attracted more than 900 local and international IT and communication companies. In the year of 1995, Malaysia started to have Internet. Cari Internet, known as the Malaysia's first search engine and web portal company, was founded in 1996 and the number of internet hosts in Malaysia have started to develop since that.
According to a survey conducted the first Malaysian Internet which have been conducted from October to November 1995 by MIMOS and Beta Interactive Service, it was found that one out of every thousand Malaysians had accessed to the internet which 20,000 of Internet users out of 20 million of population) Beta Interactive Services, 1996. In 1998, the numbers has grew tremendously to 2.6% of the population. Malaysia's second Internet Service Provider (ISP) is TM Net which was launched in the year of 1995. In April 2001, Telekom Malaysia Bhd has launched Streamyx broadband internet service at the speed of 384 Kbit/s. Ever since then, the market value for commercial and residential Internet access has grown tremendously. There are several number os ISPs in Malaysia which are offering both dial-up and broadband connectivity and in 2002 it was estimated 7.8 million.