1987	USENIX launches UUNET project as a member service
1990	USENIX Board approves a fund of $6,000 for launching university outreach and student programs
June 1992	SAGE, the System Administrators' Guild, started in early 1992 by a group of San Francisco Bay Area sysadmins (BayLISA), becomes a Special Technical Group of USENIX
1992	The first Lifetime Achievement Award, known as the Flame award, is presented to The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), honoring 180 individuals
November 1994	USENIX begins its sponsorship of the USA High School Computing Olympiad
1996	USENIX expands its student programs to $250,000 per year in stipends, awards, research grants, and outreach to universities
April 1997	USENIX gives a $50,000 grant to the Internet Software Consortium for BIND
1998	USENIX sponsors the Women in Computing video
1999	USENIX and Stichting NLnet launch ReX, an international research exchange program
1999	USENIX allocates $600,000 toward student programs
2000	USENIX gives $175,000 to the Internet Software Consortium to complete the BIND9 project
2000	USENIX's Good Works Program allocated $500,000
2002	USENIX pledges $50,000 for the next 3 years to the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect copyright and fair use rights related to Digital Millennium Copyright Act legal cases
2002–2005	USENIX funds CRA Women in Computing's Distributed Mentor Project
June 2002	USENIX joins Professor Edward Felten and his research team from Princeton and Rice University in asking a federal court to rule that they have a First Amendment right to present their research on digital music access-control technologies at the USENIX Security Symposium in August, despite threats from the recording industry (RIAA)
February 2003	USENIX pledges a $35,000 matching fund devoted to the OpenAFS Project
February 2004	USENIX sends a letter to Congress refuting the SCO Group's claim to Linux and open source software licensing