The Danish UNIX systems User Group ( da, Dansk UNIX-system Bruger Gruppe, DKUUG) is a

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around UNIX, which was the first Internet provider in Denmark and which created and maintained the

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internet domain for

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. Founded 18 November 1983, DKUUG is a primary advisor on the Danish UNIX and Open Standards use. The group is active in the standards processes for

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, the

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, and

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History

The Danish UNIX User Group was founded on 18 November 1983 with the purpose of promoting UNIX and providing Internet access to the Danish academic community and the whole of Denmark.Rune Pedersen
"Tidligere formand giver kuk i DKUUG-bestyrelse"
''Computerworld'', 2 November 2009 An offshoot of the EUUG, the DKUUG membership was originally 41 people from the Danish academic and business computing industry. Founder Keld Simonsen of the Datalogisk Institut at

Copenhagen University The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia after Uppsala Unive ...

served as group foreman from 1983 to 1997.Jacob Kaare Søresen
"Det begyndte med et udråbstegn"
Erhverv På Nettet, ''

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'', 2 January 2003 It formed a commercial subsidiary, DKnet, organized as the Danish affiliate of the

EUnet EUnet was a very loose collaboration of individual European UNIX sites in the 1980s that evolved into the fully commercial entity EUnet International Ltd in 1996. It was sold to Qwest in 1998. EUnet played a decisive role in the adoption of TCP/IP ...

network. In 1996, DKnet was purchased by the Danish PTT

TeleDanmark TDC Holding A/S or TDC Group (formerly Tele Danmark Communications) is a Danish telecommunications company dating back to 1879. TDC Group is the largest telecommunications company in Denmark. The company's headquarters are located in Copenhagen ...

in a private transaction for 20 million DKK.Mads Bang
"Ny uro i DKUUG: Endnu en medarbejder går"
''Computerworld'', 4 December 2007"DKUUG in Multimillion-Dollar Deal with TeleDanmark "
UKUUG Newsletter, Volume 5 Number 2 (April 1996) During the 2000s, the organization has been the subject of internal disagreement and infighting among board members.

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External links

Official DKUUG website
1983 establishments in Denmark Organizations established in 1983 User groups {{Denmark-org-stub sv:Unix time

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