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Timeline · 1997

The Internet arrives in Vietnam

In the early days, going online was an event: plug the phone line into the modem, listen to it screech and hiss, wait ages for a single page, and watch the pictures appear line by line.

A few years later internet cafés sprang up in every alley. Kids went there to chat, play games and create their first email address, with a name they'd now rather forget.

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On 19 November 1997 Vietnam officially connected to the global Internet: screeching modems, web pages loading line by line, and soon internet cafés everywhere.

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