Lysator
{{Short description|Computer club, Linköping University, Sweden}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Lysator
| image = Lysator.png
| location = {{flagicon|Sweden}} Linköping, Sweden
| formation = 1973
| leader_title = Projects
| leader_name = Project Runeberg
LysKOM
Elfwood
NannyMUD
Sprite Animation Toolkit
| website = [https://www.lysator.liu.se/ lysator.liu.se]
}}
Lysator is an academic computer club at Linköping University, Sweden with almost 600 members. It is an independent non-profit society, separate from the students' union and the faculties of the university.
History
Lysator was founded on 29 March 1973. The first computer used at Lysator was a Datasaab D21, delivered to Lysator on 25 May 1973. Later in the decade, members of Lysator developed and initially built a microcomputer, the LYS-16, which was advanced for its time due to its 16-bit word size.{{cite web| url = http://www.lysator.liu.se/history/lys16.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/19991108231740/http://www.lysator.liu.se/history/lys16.html| archive-date = 1999-11-08| title = The History of Lysator - The Lys-16 Microcomputer}}
In February 1993, Lysator put up the first web server in Sweden, among the first 10–15 in the world.
On 30 July 2010, Lysator began migrating to a new 3U home rack,{{cite web |url=http://root.blogs.lysator.liu.se/2010/08/02/hemdisk-och-natverk/ |title=Hemdisk och nätverk › Rootgruppen |access-date=2010-08-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826092313/http://root.blogs.lysator.liu.se/2010/08/02/hemdisk-och-natverk/ |archive-date=2011-08-26 }} increasing their available storage space from 700GB to 13TB.{{cite web |url=http://root.blogs.lysator.liu.se/2010/07/13/migrering-hemdisk-30-31-juli/ |title=Migrering hemdisk 30-31 juli › Rootgruppen |access-date=2010-08-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826092230/http://root.blogs.lysator.liu.se/2010/07/13/migrering-hemdisk-30-31-juli/ |archive-date=2011-08-26 }}
Projects hosted by Lysator
Lysator has been a starting ground for many notable projects, some of which have since become independent from the club:
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.lysator.liu.se/english.html Homepage of Lysator]
- [http://www.lysator.liu.se/history/ History of Lysator]
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Category:Student organizations established in 1973
Category:Computer clubs in Sweden
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