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41                 <p>A Complete History of CPAN.</p>
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45                         <p>The <a href="http://cpan.org" target="_blank">Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)</a> is a very useful
46                         collection of Perl code. However, authors of modules can delete older versions of modules to only
47                         let CPAN have the latest version of a module and BackPAN is where these deleted modules are backed up.</p>
48                         <p>BackPAN.org is a project created by <a href="http://about.me/wallacereis" target="_blank">Wallace Reis</a>
49                         using <a href="http://metacpan.org/module/Web::Simple" target="_blank">Web::Simple</a> and
50                         <a href="http://metacpan.org/module/HTML::Zoom" target="_blank">HTML::Zoom</a>. Kindly hosted by
51                         <a href="http://shadowcat.co.uk" target="_blank">Shadowcat Systems</a>. Website design developed by
52                         <a href="http://paulovitor.com" target="_blank">Paulo Vitor</a>.</p>
53                         <p>Please send any corrections, suggestions or comments to wreis at cpan.org.</p>
54                         <p>You can check out the source code from: git://git.shadowcat.co.uk/catagits/BackPAN-Web.git</p>
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