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I came across this as I was looking for history of search engines and its pretty crazy that the site Topsy has been able to save every single tweet since twitter launched! that's 300 billion tweets!!! and you can search them all as it is open to the public. I hadn't heard about Topsy but it seems like they are gaining a good reputation and going against big search engines like Yahoo and Bing.

Interesting article of secrets of Google and its creation

Here is just an interesting timeline of video game consoles. It does not reference open source issues, but shows the companies that produces each console and when each console was discontinued.

"An open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that would draw on the nation's living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums in order to educate, inform, and empower everyone in current and future ­generations".

Article written by Tim Berners-Lee on the public's role on maintaining the principles and control of the world wide web.

This article is from the perspective of a university instruction coordinator and details concerns about JSTOR and how it is limiting information to students.

researchers says that 0pen-source software projects need to improve vulnerability-handling practices,