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Episode description
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 – and really, who isn’t – then the history of how this world came to be is essential.