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WWW@UT Web Pioneers Celebration

When:Friday June 6, 2003 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Where: ACES Building at the corner of Speedway and 24th St.
Avaya Auditorium -- ACES 2.302
Why:Cake and punch at O's.

Life video will be available here:


There were no baby pictures taken 10 years ago during the birth of the first official Web site at The University of Texas at Austin as one of the first 125 such sites in the world. Nobody expected the Web to grow so rapidly to such a monstrous size and its creators never imagined the historical significance of what they were doing.

A decade later now, the university is making sure its Web history and "Web pioneers" are not forgotten. The university and its School of Information will host a celebration at 2 p.m. Friday (June 6) honoring members of the university community who helped to transform a computer named "Bongo" into its first official Web server on June 7, 1993. The celebration in the Avaya Auditorium on the first floor of the ACES Building, corner of Speedway and 24th Street, is open to the public.

The centerpiece of the ceremony will be public recognition of 10 University of Texas at Austin staff members as University of Texas Web Pioneers. There will also be brief remarks Sheldon Ekland-Olson and Andrew Dillon, and other speakers.

The ten recipients are:

  • Mark McFarland, General Libraries
  • David Cook, Information Technology Services
  • John Wheat, Office of the Vice President for Resource Development
  • Dennis Dillon, General Libraries
  • Paul Rascoe, General Libraries
  • Mary Lynn Rice-Lively, Associate Dean, School of Information
  • Marg Knox, Information Technology Services
  • Bill Bard, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, retired from the UT Office of Telecommunication Services
  • Sue Phillips, General Libraries
  • Mic Kaczmarczik, Information Technology Services
This ceremony is in conjunction with the WWW@UT (W3@UT) Project, an ongoing effort by the School of Information to create an online video oral history archive of narratives about the evolution of the World Wide Web at the University of Texas. Special emphasis is on collecting the stories of staff members who have been and continue to be integral to the success of the Web here at UT.

This archive will be publicly available on the Web in a wide variety of accessible formats for use by future scholars in their study of this important development in human communication and will also feature digital documents and artifacts of all kinds important to telling the story of the World Wide Web at the University of Texas at Austin.