computer
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user group
A users' group (also user's group or user group) is a type of Club (organization), club focused on the use of a particular technology, usually (but not always) computer-related.
Overview
Users' groups started in the early days of Mainframe compu ...
focused around UNIX. It was the first Internet provider in Denmark and also created and maintained the .dk internet domain for the country.
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
UNIX
Unix (, ; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, a ...
,
POSIX
The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX; ) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems. POSIX defines application programming interfaces (APIs), along with comm ...
, the
Internet
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, the
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables Content (media), content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond Information technology, IT specialists and hobbyis ...
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 (, KU) is a public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University.
The University of Copenhagen c ...
Jyllands-Posten
(; English: ''The Morning Newspaper "The Jutland Post"''), commonly shortened to or ''JP'', is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper. It is based in Aarhus C, Jutland, and with a weekday circulation of approximately 120,000 copies.DKnet, organized as the Danish affiliate of the EUnet network.
In 1996, DKnet was purchased by the Danish PTTTeleDanmark 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.