What's the main topic?
arXiv
When did it begin?
1991
In what month?
August
And day?
14th
What was the rate of submission by 2014?
8,000 per month
When did they clear half-million articles?
October 3, 2008
Who emailed TeX files around 1990?
Joanne Cohn
What did those email cause?
they filled mailboxes to capacity
What did Paul Ginsparg see?
He recognized the need for central storage.
And what did he do about it?
He created a central repository mailbox.
Where would they be stored?
Los Alamos National Laboratory
What could access that?
Any computer.
Are there other access ways?
Yes.
How many?
Three
Which one came out first?
FTP
In what year?
1991
How many years til the next come out?
One
What was its name?
Gopher
When was the WWW added?
1993