The Bay Area SIGWEB was a special interest group for the World Wide Web

World Wide Web

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 that was founded in August 1993 by the staff of the University of California, San Francisco

University of California, San Francisco

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 (UCSF) Center for Knowledge Management (CKM) http://www.ckm.ucsf.edu/, at the direction of CKM Director Dr. Michael Doyle, who later became the founder of Eolas

Eolas

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Prominent members included Xerox

Xerox

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 PARC

PARC

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, Sun Microsystems

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, O'Reilly

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 Publishers, and Pacific Bell

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SIGWEB's first president was UCSF's Chris McRae.

Some meeting announcements:

• First SIGWEB meeting, at UCS], 10/7/93 http://www.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q3/0903.htmlhttp://www.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q4/0232.html

• Second SIGWEB meeting at Xerox
  Xerox
  Xerox Corporation is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies...
  
   PARC
  PARC
  PARC or Parc may refer to:* PARC , the Palo Alto Research Center * PARC Management, a theme park and entertainment venue operator...
  
  http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/html/urls/0604.html http://www.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q4/0311.html

• SIGWEB #4 (Amdahl, Sunnyvale, CA) http://www.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1994q1/0247.htmlhttp://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/archives/WWW-TALK/www-talk-1994q1.messages/379.html

• SIGWEB #6 (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) http://www.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1994q2/0183.html

• SIGWEB #7 ( Sun Microsystems) http://www.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1994q2/0453.html

• SIGWEB #8 (Berkeley, California) http://www.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1994q2/0972.html