Successful roll-out of 3-in-1 smart card as corporate identity & matriculation card, access card for campus-wide facilities and cash card for micro payment (since 1991).

Two multimedia Internet technologies, Gopher and World Wide Web were embraced to house the University’s campus-wide information resources.

To provide a readily available archive of public domain software and important documents, NUS expanded its FTP archives from 300MB to 25GB, mirroring over 25 important overseas sites.

Downsizing of the academic computers from the IBM mainframe to UNIX host computers.

Introduction of mandatory computer accounts for all students.