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by brabel 2163 days ago
As GitHub explains in their blog post[1]:

_It will also include works which explain the many layers of technical foundations that make software possible: microprocessors, networking, electronics, semiconductors, and even pre-industrial technologies. This will allow the archive’s inheritors to better understand today’s world and its technologies, and may even help them recreate computers to use the archived software._

[1] https://github.blog/2020-07-16-github-archive-program-the-jo...