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- 1 2 Initial announcement Archived 31 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine , Specific announcement Archived 31 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine , Technical difficulties note Archived 12 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine , Quietus on LGPedia
- ↑ Initial Twitter message, summary of several of them [ permanent dead link ]
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