Redbrick - DCUs Networking Society

Redbrick is DCUs Computer Networking society. We host events for everything computing related this ranges from; how to setup your own website and storing your photos online to System Administration and Computer Programming Tutorials. We also host a number of services for our membership. A Brief Redbrick History In October of 1995 a group of friends started the ball rolling on the idea of a computer network in DCU, run by students for the students. Starting out with a battered 386 PC (dubbed Nurse), bits of borrowed memory, their own cash, and a lot of luck, they went about organising the DCU Networking Society. Once recognised as a society, they were allowed to setup a temporary home for our server in the Computer Applications faculty. With the approval of John Boland, the then head of Computer Services in DCU, the society received its own subnet, dubbed Redbrick, along with a physical area in which to store Nurse, our one and only machine. Since April 9th 1996, when the machine we...