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Coconut at 12:11, 27 September 2009

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	=== What is RedBrick? ==		=== What is RedBrick? ===

	Full version of Campus article from September 2009.		Full version of Campus article from September 2009.

Coconut at 12:11, 27 September 2009

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			=== What is RedBrick? ==

			Full version of Campus article from September 2009.

			"What is RedBrick?" - this is the age-old query which has plagued the
			DCU Networking Society for years. RedBrick is such a diverse society
			that a million monkeys working on a million typewriters for a million
			years might reproduce the works of Shakespeare, but they'll never come
			up with a concise explanation as to what RedBrick is.

			Simply put, RedBrick is a rather big social society with a slant on
			computers and technology. We host a plethora of techy events designed to
			entertain and educate anyone and everyone, including cinema trips, pub nights and
			tutorials and workshops on programming, web design and graphic design.
			Expect to see the return of the annual RedBrick Freshers'
			Ball (booze! booze! booze!) and the table quiz; last year, the quiz saw
			members having prizes practically thrown at them, with Sega Mega Drives,
			portable hard drives, Lucky Charms cereal and plenty of spot prizes
			being won. We also raffled off a brand new Eee PC laptop.

			At the start of 2009, over twenty Brickies went to Finland - birthplace
			of the Linux kernel - to mess about in massive technology museums,
			employ stealth and cunning in a battle to snow each other into our cabins and feast on
			reindeer and mead in a Viking restaurant (all while being quite
			drunk).

			RedBrick isn't just about events though; we are lucky enough to own our
			own servers on which we host the services used daily by our members:
			IRC (Internet Relay Chat - our most popular service, as it's great for
			putting off assignments until the last minute, waffling about whatever's on
			your mind and meeting new people),webspace (host your own website with massive
			amounts of storage space), forums/message boards, the photo gallery and your
			own @redbrick.dcu.ie e-mail address. We also have our own wiki site (wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie),
			where all members can create/edit/vandalise pages on whatever you feel
			like. You can access all of these services from any computer connected
			to the Internet.

			Networking societies are to be found all over the country, and RedBrick
			- as part of the Intersocs network - is often found mingling with other nerds from
			Trinity, DIT, NUI Maynooth and University of Limerick, both at Intersocs
			events and in the IRC channel.

			So, if you want to make new friends, talk about anything that's on your mind, or just get twisted because you have nothing better to do with your time, RedBrick has something to offer you.

	== Justin / cain ==		== Justin / cain ==

Lil cain at 01:41, 20 April 2007

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			[[Category:Redbrick History]]

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2007-04-15T13:10:14Z

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	At phaxx's suggestion, Campus found a RedBrick virgin and asked them to join up and write about their experience. It was published ~~in Campus, the weekly student's union magazine~~ on April 9th, 2007.		At phaxx's suggestion, Campus (the weekly students' union magazine) found a RedBrick virgin and asked them to join up and write about their experience. It was published on April 9th, 2007.

	=== Campus Dares You! (to use RedBrick) ===		=== Campus Dares You! (to use RedBrick) ===

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2007-04-15T13:05:34Z

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	There are a lot of fun or even scary things that you could be dared to do in life - a bungee jump, an open-mic night or even sword fighting - so when I was asked to live my life through redbrick for a few days I have to say I was hugely under whelmed.		There are a lot of fun or even scary things that you could be dared to do in life - a bungee jump, an open-mic night or even sword fighting - so when I was asked to live my life through redbrick for a few days I have to say I was hugely under whelmed.

Phaxx at 13:05, 15 April 2007

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	There are a lot of fun or even scary things that you could be dared to do in life - a bungee jump, an open-mic night or even sword fighting - so when I was asked to live my life through redbrick for a few days I have to say I was hugely under whelmed.		There are a lot of fun or even scary things that you could be dared to do in life - a bungee jump, an open-mic night or even sword fighting - so when I was asked to live my life through redbrick for a few days I have to say I was hugely under whelmed.

Phaxx at 12:56, 15 April 2007

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	== Kevin / kevd ==		== Kevin / kevd ==

			At phaxx's suggestion, Campus found a RedBrick virgin and asked them to join up and write about their experience. It was published in Campus, the weekly student's union magazine on April 9th, 2007.

	=== Campus Dares You! (to use RedBrick) ===		=== Campus Dares You! (to use RedBrick) ===

			There are a lot of fun or even scary things that you could be dared to do in life - a bungee jump, an open-mic night or even sword fighting - so when I was asked to live my life through redbrick for a few days I have to say I was hugely under whelmed.

			First off, for me Redbrick in DCU meant the outer walls of Hampstead not a second dimension where computer students seem to spend all their time. Redbrick is in its own words: a computer network in DCU, run by students for the students.Basically, hundreds of students log on everyday to chat, put up pictures and podcasts and to have good gossip it appears.

			Now its not that I'm a technophobe, I just get bored with the whole computer thing. My college house has a grand collection of a Nintendo 64, PS2, Wii and the latest addition of a PS3 but I'd be hard fought to get engrossed in any of them so starting out redbrick proved a bit of a logistical nightmare. To be honest I didnt even know what tbh meant.

			Admittedly, I had preconceptions of the type of people who sit around all day on what I would best describe as a super advanced and less colourful version of Bebo. I had images of a nerd.com style society where people discussed the finer points of Pythagoras' theorem while reflecting on some show about gigabytes they saw on the Discovery channel last night.

			That was mistake number one. Mistake number two was not being armed with a pseudonym when the ever helpful Charlie in clubs and socs set up my account. Put on the stop I opted for kevd only later to discover that nobody operated under an identifiable name, instead choosing alter egos like phaxx, munky or duke. Nevertheless, I eventually logged onto Murphy, the central server where the action happens.

			The busiest part of life on Redbrick is the chat room where people seem to stay all day discussing just about anything that crosses their minds and generally people have no problem speaking their minds. I'm guessing from a general reaction that my sudden presence on Redbrick caused a few to questions as to my motive, suggesting that as an online community it has a number of cliques and it wasn't long before I was told "Union hacks out". But people mostly just wanted to discuss dinner plans, the true meaning of OH (thats hydroxide not water as was established after some debate!) and even where to get fairtrade Easter eggs.

			But if my couple of days of red- bricking have taught me anything its that redbrick is gossip central and has no shortage of bitchiness. At 1:24pm on Tuesday, theycould tell me that exactly 542 people had voted in the SU elections. Apparently, short skirts get votes, if the candidate is decent looking, because SU elections are according to redbrick a beauty contest. And if you've ever wondered what happened to former president Paul May I can officially tell you that he did the Blackrock triathlon in June last year, followed by the Chicago one in August and he spent New Years in Berlin. Bebo wouldnt have half of it!

			However, while Redbrick does seem to be at the pulse of everything happening in DCU (as I write a discussion is brewing as to why Lord of the Rings music is playing in the Hub - "coz it's full of nerds") I do worry a little that many of its users have never heard of 3 euro Tuesday or Desperate Housewives. After several drinks in the Hub I discover that 53 people are still online at 4am in the morning. Most may not be active but they are still logged in - mistake number three.

			Kevin Doyle, Victim

Phaxx at 12:39, 15 April 2007

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	Illustrious Chairman, Justin/[[User: Cain\|Cain]], originally joined redbrick to write an article		Illustrious Chairman, Justin/[[User: Cain\|Cain]], originally joined redbrick to write an article
	for An Tarbh.		for An Tarbh.
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	Just to correct this. I initially joined because a cute girl in my class joined up. She never renewed after her first year as it happens. I was bored one day, logged on and thought to myself, 'I could write a poorly written and amateurish account of this evening's entertainment'. And so.... - Cain		Just to correct this. I initially joined because a cute girl in my class joined up. She never renewed after her first year as it happens. I was bored one day, logged on and thought to myself, 'I could write a poorly written and amateurish account of this evening's entertainment'. And so.... - Cain

	==I was a BBS Virgin, by 'Caine' ==		===I was a BBS Virgin, by 'Caine'===

	There are many despised sub-cultures clinging to existence on campus. From the		There are many despised sub-cultures clinging to existence on campus. From the
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	Caine.		Caine.

			== Kevin / kevd ==

			=== Campus Dares You! (to use RedBrick) ===

Cain at 11:54, 28 July 2006

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	Illustrious Chairman, Justin/[[User: Cain\|Cain]], originally joined redbrick to write an article		Illustrious Chairman, Justin/[[User: Cain\|Cain]], originally joined redbrick to write an article
	for An Tarbh.		for An Tarbh.

			Just to correct this. I initially joined because a cute girl in my class joined up. She never renewed after her first year as it happens. I was bored one day, logged on and thought to myself, 'I could write a poorly written and amateurish account of this evening's entertainment'. And so.... - Cain

	==I was a BBS Virgin, by 'Caine' ==		==I was a BBS Virgin, by 'Caine' ==

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