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 {{Timeline Years}}
 ==January==
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 th - Spock announces intention to run for SU President. Eventually he pulls out of the race, & helps with Hugo Brady's election campaign (who got elected).
-IRC was re-installed on redbrick about now. It only really took off when the next batch of freshers came to DCU.
+th - Bootie resigns.
+th - Complaint from SU President re Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kempf" being hosted on mellow@rb's webpage.
+nd - Phil runs disk accounting to find largest disk users.
+th - Redbrick takes part in "Battle of the Socs" during RAG week. Quiz in the bar with 3 rounds (questions on DCU, how well do you know your society, general knowledge). Versus Sinn Fein, Fianna Fail, Debate Soc, Aussie Soc.
+th - IRC was re-installed on redbrick about now. It only really took off when the next batch of freshers came to DCU.
 ==April==
+st - Kpodesta changes the Redbrick frontpage to look like it was hacked (some 3133t text with a link to SLAKERS on thayl's page - see encyclopedia for more about SLAKERS), and fools everyone on the committee...
 th - Redbrick Web Design competition announced.
-th - AGM.
+th - redbrick.org & redbrick.net registered by elmer@rb.
-Kpodesta is elected as chair.
+th - AGM (DCU Business School).
+Kpodesta is elected as chair (and performs a rap, co-written with thayl@rb who supplied the music).
 Moridin is elected as secretary.
 Spock is elected as treasurer.
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 A trip to the Japanese restaurant/noodle bar Wagamamas follows then ppl scatter to different pubs/clubs. Most head to Whelans.
+th - Power outage in DCU, 7.30pm
 th - First redbrick wedding.
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 Sandman (Mike [[Rbwiki_McHugh|McHugh]]) is the best man.
-th - HEAnet talk.
+th - Phil and Mark visit James Healy in CSD re opening ports (NNTP, CVS, mail, DNS). CSD currently run a 2 MBit line to HEAnet, from "next week" they will run a 10 MBit line.
+th - SPC AGM. Declan Boylan (decob@rb) elected chairperson, Jon Lundberg (spock@rb) elected secretary.
+th - Munchkin "officially" resigns from helpdesk (replacement was voted in at the previous AGM).
+th - First committee meeting of the new committee.
+th - Redbrick's entry to the DCU SU student handbook (written by spock@rb):
+   DCU's nominee for the Bics Awards 2000 (Best Society in Ireland), in just
+   four short years, Redbrick has become a phenomenon, with little over
+,300 members.  With it's Turbo Charged Server set up, they offer the DCU
+   student an unrivaled array of services; custom e-mail account, web site
+   setup, newsgroup discussions, file storage of up to 50 megabytes
+   accessible from any pc in college, chat system, and a 365 day a year
+   helpdesk service for your computing problems.  Redbrick is also fast
+   becoming the de facto method of communication between other societies,
+   clubs, and the Students Union, so if you wanna know what's going on, get
+   connected.
+   There's more to life than computers though, and that's why Redbrick
+   insist on providing members with legendary nights out throughout the
+   year.  Last year saw them fill Break for the Border to capacity with over
+people enjoying the luxury of a free night out, a weekend in Cork, a
+   karting trip, hallowe'en party, christmas dinner at the races, Rag Week
+   mayhem, and annual bashes with other colleges from all over the country.
+   Redbrick is the biggest society for a reason, keep your head screwed on
+   while at college and for a measly two quid, we'll keep your ear to the
+   ground for you.
+th - Redbrick go to BICS as DCU's nomination for Best Society. Julie@rb and Phil@rb attend in Limerick.
+th - Talk by HEAnet about what they do (Mike Norris and Dave Wilson) - XG21, 7pm-9pm.
 th - Closing date for Web design competition
-NNTP and CVS ports are opened for redbrick to "rest of world"(TM)
+th - Clubs & Socs ball
+th - Ports access on CSD routers/firewalls is enabled for requested ports (DNS, NTP, NNTP, SMTP).
 Sites currently hosted by redbrick include funliam.com, perv.org, redbrick.org and redbrick.net
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 ==May==
-th - Phil leaves webgroup to concentrate on admin stuff.
+nd - PSU failure on Enigma.
+th - New switch ordered, Cisco 2900 (22 x 100BaseTX + 2 x 100BaseFX ports) by Dave Murphy (drjolt@rb). This fell through (the company ordered from went into receivership), thankfully we didn't pay any money!
+th - Helpdesk mailing list set up.
+th - Kpodesta and Phil meet with SU to be told that Redbrick servers will be housed in the "publications office" of the student centre, were given a tour, and were assured access would be no problem.
+th - Redgiant has discussion with CSD to be told that they're considering implementing a clubsocs.dcu.ie domain for all Clubs & Societies (redbrick currently host all Clubs & Socs websites).
+th - Prof. Alan Smeaton (CA) emails spock@rb regards the possibility of involvement with Linux on CA's S/390 system. Prompts some discussion on committee list and mention of Beowulf cluster experimenting. John Looney (valen@rb) mails Brian Stone (CA) about the possibility, to enthusiastic response.
+th - Virtual hosts added for every DCU Club & Society (i.e. club.redbrick.dcu.ie).
+th - Phil leaves webgroup to concentrate on admin stuff.
 ==June==
+th - Redbrick FreeBSD upgrade. IRC and POP are down.
 Sometime during summer The Slipper on Ballymun Road is closed for refurbishment and re-opens as Matt Weldon's.
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 ==July==
+th - CSD downtime (switch upgrade).
 th - colmmacc joins webgroup.
 th - Redbrick crash. Unknown cause, likely overheating.
+th - Meeting in CA with IBM for initial discussion re S/390 access.
 ==August==
-CSD kindly donate a rack and fibre switch to redbrick.
+th - CSD (James Healy) kindly donate a rack and fibre switch to redbrick.
+th - Network outage (CSD).
 NNTP-Cache news server is being installed to put newsgroups under identd.
+th - 3 x old lab PCs in CA were donated to Redbrick.
+th - Proposals for projects on IBM S/390 were mailed to CA.
 th - Redbrick build of Putty (by colmmacc@rb) is made.
+th - The donated rack from CSD is picked up and moved to the Student Centre (from the Physics building to the publications office in the student centre, new redbrick home). Physically moved by tibor, huey, phil, kpodesta.
 ==September==
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 The School of Computer Applications releases Fischlar. A system which allows you to record television programmes and watch them streamed later on. They give free computers to some ppl living in res to allow them to use Fischlar.
+th - Redbrick moved in entireity from Henry Grattan (original place) to Student Centre (publications office). Student Union webserver, enigma, nanny, are in the new rack (from CSD), as well as the switch. Everything else remains in the monolith.
+th - "The Big Day out" in DCU's Freshers week.
+th - pixies resigns as admin.
 th - The Hub in DCU is officially opened.
 Tom from the Big Brother programme is there. 'The 4 of Us' played. Maybe others *shrug*
 ==October==
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 Secondary school teachers' strike begins.
+nd - First DCU Societies Ball held in the Grand Hotel in Malahide. Organised in part by Redbrick (Spock@rb/Bootie@rb), Physeng (dad@rb), Aussie Soc (decob@rb), GAA Supporters.
 ==December==
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 The Postgraduate residences in DCU are opened.
 They have a full-size snooker table!!
+[[Category:Redbrick History]]
+[[Category:Timeline]]