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The Asian Media & Mass Communication Conference 2010 Osaka, Japan
ANALYSIS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNET COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
The development of Internet technology that exists today was actually started in 1969
with the existence of ARPANET. Apart from the ARPANET there existed also other computer
networks such as Usenet (1979), BITNET (Because It’s Network Time) (1981) dan NFSNET
(National Science Foundation Network) (1986). One which is certain was that during its initial
stage of operation it only contained words without any graphic elements, animations, sounds or
video. Internet Transformation became more vigourous with the introduction of World Wide
Web by the Centre for European Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. Beginning from the
year 1995, it was extensively being used especially in the commercial field.
In the context of the development of Internet technology in Malaysia, its experience was
essentially different from what that happened in the America. Internet was started in Malaysia for
the purpose of research through Computer Networks of Malaysia (RangKom) that was initiated
by Malaysian Institutte of Microelectronic System (MIMOS). Its evolution continued when in the
year 1997 it was further expanded and known as “Joint Academic Research Integrated
Networking (JARING) (S. Mastura, 1997; Yeow Leong Swee, 1997). Towards 1998 it was
reported that users of Jaring increased tremendously reaching the figure more than 200,000 in
which 10,000 them were made up of clients from the organizations which have Internet
connections (Adnan, 2000). The related disclosure will not be completed without the support of
data indicating the increase of Internet penetration especially in Malaysia. Since 1997 until 2004,
data provided in Table 1 clearly indicate the increase of the Internet use in Malaysia
.
Table 1: 1997 – 2004: Ascending Figures of Malaysia’s Internet Users
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
Sources: (Matrade 2004; IWS 2005)
137,400
600,000
1,500,000
3,700,000
5,700,000
7,800,000
8,600,000
10,040,000
To date there are about 16,902,600 Internet users in Malaysia as compared to 3,700,000 in
the year 2000. The increase of percentage from the years 2000 to 2009 was about 356.8%. In
Figure 1, it shows the Asia Top 10 Internet Countries – 2009:
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