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Most software doesn't survive very long. The hard truth is that more than 80% of the open source software being written today will be forgotten in a few years. For those projects that do succeed and thrive, the developers typically decide at some point that they need a new source control system. For many reasons (lack of time, lack of tools, or a simple desire to start fresh), most projects simply throw away their development history at this point and start again. All of which means that most source control repositories are lucky to survive more than a couple of years. However, there's a class of meticulous, responsible, (obsessed?) programmer that somehow manages to keep the same thread of development alive and unbroken for decades. Among the 14,000 repositories Ohloh is currently tracking, here are the three oldest open source repositories -- all three of which are still under continuous development today. [And if we're missing something, please let us know!]