arxiv.org is finally graduating from Cornell. TIL it has almost the *exact same* origin story as the web -- a little project on a NeXT workstation in a giant non-university lab (CERN 1990 for the web, Los Alamos 1991 for arxiv). news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...
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- arXiv is a free, open-access archive holding nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles across nine major fields.
- None of the materials on arXiv are peer-reviewed by the archive itself, a structural fact affecting how preprints should be read.
- The archive runs as a nonprofit through Cornell University, backed by the Simons Foundation, member institutions, and contributors.
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