History

Creation Date

The Computer Science Club has been in existence since 1931. The club was not officially part of the University of Waterloo, rather was a general interest club formed by a collection of interested individuals who read Kleene, Church, and Turing's work that formed the basis of Computer Science. The club joined the University of Waterloo shortly after the founding of the University in 1957. Much of the history prior to the creation of the University is unclear, as documents dating back this far have only recently been recovered.

The CSC Fire

It is believed that many of the documents describing the original club were destroyed when the original office destroyed by a fire at the then Waterloo University (now Wilfred Laurier University).

The PMC intervention

At some point between 2000-2010, CSC had devloved into a bunch of very stinky nerds just playing nethack all day on the computers. The Pure Math Club (who was 2 doors down) had become appaled with the state of the club, and thus; decided to try and fix the situation. This was by Rallying together at the CSC election, electing one of their own as president, and changing the office rules to include 'No Gaming' in the office.

And thus, the people playing only NetHack 24/7 had finally left.

This rule was kept all the way till mid-way through till Winter 2022.