Twenty-five years ago, on October 31, 1989, 18 people filtered into Hearst Memorial Gym for what was anything but a routine morning meeting. In an era when email wasn't ubiquitous, many had - quaintly - learned about this meeting via memos sent in campus mail. A number of participants wore their Halloween costumes.
That long-ago meeting, called by a campus IT staff member and dBase programmer who was hoping to “avoiding reinventing the wheel" in his work, represented Micronet's birth as a campus user group for IT professionals. We're planning to further celebrate this anniversary in one or more ways over the days to follow, but for now, please give thanks for 25 years of Micronet on this very special Halloween Day! Chris Kosienski Micronet Coordinator Aron Roberts and Ian Crew Micronet Mailing List Co-administrators P.S. The group started out being called the Administrative PC Users Group, then was renamed to UC MicroManagers, finally becoming known as Micronet sometime during 1990.
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