Telegram program in the GitHub Archive
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In 2020, the world's largest web hosting service IT projects and their collaborative development GitHub announced about creating an archive of open source. The data is moved to tape drives and, on assurances of authors, can be stored for over 1000 years. The storage facility is located in the former coal mine on the island of Spitsbergen at a depth of 150 meters, sufficient to survive the effects of nuclear or electromagnetic weapons.

Archive got about 21 terabytes of information, the main criterion of getting a repository was the presence of at least one of a commit (changes) over the last year, or the total number of "stars" (used for project evaluation and placement in bookmarks) more than 250.

Among other things, underground storage got the source code of client applications Telegram for Android, iOS, macOS, and cross-platform client Telegram Desktop for Windows, Linux and macOS. Users who have contributed to the development of projects that fall under the above criteria, the profiles have a related record (screenshots below).

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