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Comment by BillinghamJ | Hacker News Reader

As far as I can tell, just about every active GitHub user has the same thing - just as long as you've ever committed to a public repo

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Yeah, the inclusion criteria are pretty broad:

  The snapshot will include every repo with any commits
  between the announcement at GitHub Universe on November 13th
  and 02/02/2020, every repo with at least 1 star and any
  commits from the year before the snapshot (02/03/2019 -
  02/02/2020), and every repo with at least 250 stars.

from https://archiveprogram.github.com/#arctic-code-vault

This would make sense, as it looks like money wasn't a huge factor. If money wasn't an issue, time and effort would be, and you can easily reduce effort by storing pretty much everything.

Oh, ha, you're right! I read this post and thought, "wow, so cool!". But after reading your comment I checked my own GitHub profile and sure enough, I have it, too!

I think it's still pretty cool :) Although like the author, I shudder to think what people might think of my code 1,000 years from now (let alone what people think of it now ;)

This badge will become increasingly scarce as more people register for GitHub accounts. I bet this badge will be a GitHub status symbol 10 years from now.

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