Lysator is an academic computer club at
Linköping University
Linköping University (, LiU) is a public research university based in Linköping, Sweden. Originally established in 1969, it was granted full university status in 1975 and is one of Sweden's largest academic institutions. The university has fo ...
,
Sweden with almost 600 members. It is an independent
non-profit
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society, separate from the students' union and the
faculties of the
university
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.
History
Lysator was founded on 29 March 1973. The first computer used at Lysator was a
Datasaab Datasaab was the computer division of, and later a separate company spun off from, aircraft manufacturer Saab in Linköping, Sweden. Its history dates back to December 1954, when Saab got a license to build its own copy of BESK, an early Swedish c ...
D21, delivered to Lysator on 25 May 1973. Later in the decade, members of Lysator developed and initially built a
microcomputer
A microcomputer is a small, relatively inexpensive computer having a central processing unit (CPU) made out of a microprocessor. The computer also includes memory and input/output (I/O) circuitry together mounted on a printed circuit board (P ...
, the
LYS-16, which was advanced for its time due to its 16-
bit
The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented a ...
word size.
In February 1993, Lysator put up the first
web server
A web server is computer software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant HTTPS. A user agent, commonly a web browser or web crawler, initi ...
in Sweden, among the first 10–15 in the world.
On 30 July 2010, Lysator began migrating to a new 3
U home
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rack
Rack or racks may refer to:
Storage and installation
* Amp rack, short for amplifier rack, a piece of furniture in which amplifiers are mounted
* Bicycle rack, a frame for storing bicycles when not in use
* Bustle rack, a type of storage bin m ...
, increasing their available storage space from 700
GB to 13
TB.
Projects hosted by Lysator
Lysator has been a starting ground for many notable projects, some of which have since become independent from the club:
*
Project Runeberg
Project Runeberg ( sv, Projekt Runeberg) is a digital cultural archive initiative that publishes free electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries. Patterned after Project Gutenberg, it was founded ...
*
LysKOM
*
Elfwood
* ''
SvenskMud''
* ''
NannyMUD''
* Sprite Animation Toolkit
*
Pike (programming language)
A MUD (; originally multi-user dungeon, with later variants multi-user dimension and multi-user domain) is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, usually text-based or storyboarded. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slas ...
See also
*
History of the Internet in Sweden
References
External links
Homepage of LysatorHistory of Lysator
Linköping University
MUD organizations
Student organizations established in 1973
Computer clubs in Sweden
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