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July 3rd, 2008

Firefox 3 Download Day Certificate

Despite being inexcusably unprepared for the server load, the Mozilla Foundation made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. Firefox 3 Download Day scored an official tally of 8,002,530 downloads, exceeding their goal of 5,000,000.
Tags: Browsers, Firefox, Guinness, Mozilla, Open Source

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March 20th, 2008

Guinness Needs to Catch Up with Gamers

The Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition just came out, but the folks at Guinness still need to catch up with gamer culture. They claim this group is the world’s largest gathering of game cosplayers — at a paltry 80.
Rubbish. For years, geeky conventions around the world have featured hundreds of game cosplayers at a time. […]

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