Engr. Benjamin “Benjie” Tan, a pioneered Filipino engineer who installed and switched on the Cisco router that allowed PH to connect to the Internet, has died.
Engr. Benjamin “Benjie” Tan died on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 26, at St. Luke’s Medical Center due to cancer. According to Edison Ong, a former tech journalist and also an alumnus of Xavier School, Tan was confined in the hospital three times this year for pneumonia and for radiography in order to treat his lymph node mass that grew in his abdomen.
In 1994, Tan was working for ComNet, which was a local supplier of Cisco networking gears, where he was tasked to set up the router at the PLDT main office in Makati — and that made him the first engineer in the Philippines to connect to the Internet.
Tan was recognized by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) at the 25th anniversary of the Philippine Internet held in 2019 as a tribute to his contribution to the industry.
Prior to his unfavorable passing, Tan’s last known employer was Globe Telecom. Aside from Philnet, Tan also had a time at Mozcom, which was the country’s first Internet service provider (ISP).
Engr. Tan’s wake was located at Chapel 9 of the Heritage Park in Taguig City. The internment will start at 2:00 PM of December 30.
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Thank you sir.