CPAN - This Day In History
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CPAN was the first open-source software module repository. And on this day, Aug 1st, in 1995, CPAN was first announced to a private group of PERL users.
If you are building things today by pulling in various packages from various open source places \\u2013 and really, who isn\\u2019t \\u2013 then the history of how this world came to be is essential.
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