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{{Short description|Computer club, Linköping University, Sweden}}
{{Infobox organization
| name          = Lysator
| image         = Lysator.png
| location      = [[Linköping]], [[Sweden]]
| formation     = 1973
| leader_title  = Projects
| leader_name   = [[Project Runeberg]]<br />[[LysKOM]]<br />[[Elfwood]]<br />[[NannyMUD]]<br />Sprite Animation Toolkit
| website       = [https://www.lysator.liu.se/ lysator.liu.se]
}}

'''Lysator''' is an academic computer club at [[Linköping University]], [[Sweden]] with almost 600 members. It is an independent [[non-profit]] society, separate from the students' union and the [[Faculty (teaching staff)|faculties]] of the [[university]].

== History ==

Lysator was founded on 29 March 1973. The first computer used at Lysator was a [[Datasaab]] D21, delivered to Lysator on 25 May 1973. Later in the decade, members of Lysator developed and initially built a [[microcomputer]], the [[LYS-16]], which was advanced for its time due to its 16-[[bit]] word size.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.lysator.liu.se/history/lys16.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/19991108231740/http://www.lysator.liu.se/history/lys16.html| archive-date = 1999-11-08| title = The History of Lysator - The Lys-16 Microcomputer}}</ref>

In February 1993, Lysator put up the first [[web server]] in Sweden, among the first 10&ndash;15 in the world.

On 30 July 2010, Lysator began migrating to a new 3[[Rack unit|U]] [[Data center|home]] [[Rack-mount|rack]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://root.blogs.lysator.liu.se/2010/08/02/hemdisk-och-natverk/ |title=Hemdisk och nätverk › Rootgruppen |access-date=2010-08-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826092313/http://root.blogs.lysator.liu.se/2010/08/02/hemdisk-och-natverk/ |archive-date=2011-08-26 }}</ref> increasing their available storage space from 700[[Gigabytes|GB]] to 13[[terabyte|TB]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://root.blogs.lysator.liu.se/2010/07/13/migrering-hemdisk-30-31-juli/ |title=Migrering hemdisk 30-31 juli › Rootgruppen |access-date=2010-08-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826092230/http://root.blogs.lysator.liu.se/2010/07/13/migrering-hemdisk-30-31-juli/ |archive-date=2011-08-26 }}</ref>

== 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]]
* LysKOM
* [[Elfwood]]
* ''SvenskMud''
* ''NannyMUD''
* Sprite Animation Toolkit
* [[Pike (programming language)]]<ref>{{cite web| url = https://pike.lysator.liu.se/about/history/| title = History - Pike Programming Language}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[History of the Internet in Sweden]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.lysator.liu.se/english.html Homepage of Lysator]
* [http://www.lysator.liu.se/history/ History of Lysator]
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[[Category:Computer clubs in Sweden]]
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[[Category:20th-century establishments in Östergötland County]]


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