{"id":241009,"date":"2019-12-28T05:38:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T10:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=241009"},"modified":"2025-01-13T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T02:38:09","slug":"engineer-who-connected-ph-to-internet-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/12\/28\/engineer-who-connected-ph-to-internet-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineer who connected PH to internet passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v5.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DICTgovph\/videos\/3024395644241124\/UzpfSTE4MjcyODk4ODQ4ODkwMjoyNjU3NDI3NzQxMDE5MDAy\/\" data-width=\"1170\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DICTgovph\/videos\/3024395644241124\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DICTgovph\/videos\/3024395644241124\/\">ICYMI Series: Benjamin Tan on 25 years of internet in the Philippines<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch the untold story of Benjamin Tan, the engineer who worked almost single-handedly on the background to make the country\u2019s first Internet connection happen on March 29, 1994. #PHInternetLevelUpAt25<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DICTgovph\/\">Department of Information and Communications Technology &#8211; DICT<\/a> on Friday, March 29, 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The man behind why Filipinos are able to access the internet today, passed away on Thursday, December 26, according to the report of Newsbytes.ph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The technology news website reported that Filipino Engineer Benjamin &#8220;Benjie&#8221; Tan succumbed to cancer in a lymph node.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Prior to his passing, Newsbytes.ph said former tech journalist Edison Ong told them that Tan was confined in a hospital thrice this year due to pneumonia and for radiotherapy to treat a lymph node mass in his abdomen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tan is the one who installed the router which linked the Philippines to the world via the internet for the first time on March 29, 1994.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On Friday, December 27, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) paid a tribute to Tan through posting a five-minute video of him on its Facebook page.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy paxil online <a href=\"https:\/\/dino-dds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/paxil.html\">https:\/\/dino-dds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/paxil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;The Department of ICT mourns with the country in the passing of Engr. Benjie Tan,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the clip, the Philippine internet pioneer shared that it was a &#8220;bit nerve-wracking&#8221; for him when he first connected the country to the internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But while it was what he felt on that day, Tan did not consider such accomplishment as a big deal, saying, &#8220;It was just another job, <i>kaya<\/i> (that&#8217;s why) I didn&#8217;t see the point of bragging about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;The euphoria, the blah, blah about this just came later on,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tan said he believes that having access to the internet can make one&#8217;s life better for he can learn from any information he obtains online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;I have not forgotten hope that with internet access, someone out there, a student or whoever, could use what information is available to improve their lives.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy wellbutrin online <a href=\"https:\/\/dino-dds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/wellbutrin.html\">https:\/\/dino-dds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/wellbutrin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> There&#8217;s got to be more to it than just posting pictures and selfies,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy kamagra gold online <a href=\"https:\/\/dino-dds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/kamagra-gold.html\">https:\/\/dino-dds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/kamagra-gold.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;I pretty much hope and pray that the net for all the possibilities that it provides a person, that it improve[s] their lives somehow, someway in a true, meaningful manner,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Last March, the country celebrated the 25th anniversary of Philippine internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICYMI Series: Benjamin Tan on 25 years of internet in the Philippines Watch the untold story of Benjamin Tan, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":192433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54365,16,95,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-instagram","category-news","category-news-ph","category-technology","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283889,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241009\/revisions\/283889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}