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GitHub's Arctic Vault Makes Sure Open Source Code Survives the ApocalypseGitHub's Arctic Vault Makes Sure Open Source Code Survives the Apocalypse

In early July, GitHub deposited 186 kilometers of photographic film, containing 21TB of digitized snapshots of all the public-facing code in its repository, to its underground Arctic Code Vault, located on a Norwegan island in the Arctic Ocean.

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