[1] Founded 18 November 1983, DKUUG is a primary advisor on the Danish UNIX and Open Standards use.
The group is active in the standards processes for UNIX, POSIX, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and Open Document Format.
[2] An offshoot of the EUUG, the DKUUG membership was originally 41 people from the Danish academic and business computing industry.
Founder Keld Simonsen of the Datalogisk Institut at Copenhagen University served as group foreman from 1983 to 1997.
[5] In 1996, DKnet was purchased by the Danish PTT TeleDanmark in a private transaction for 20 million DKK.