# 20 years of JabRef - The Beginning

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20 years of JabRef - The Beginning

This blog post starts a series of posts on the 20 years anniversary of JabRef. We asked various contributors about their stories on JabRef and other insights. One of the early contributors was David Weitzman, who started contributing to JabRef while he was in high school…

Reads more about the creation of [#JabRef](https://foojay.social/tags/JabRef) in our blog posts:

> **[20 years of JabRef - The Beginning](https://blog.jabref.org/2024/03/11/JabRef-20-years-start/)**
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> The blog of the literature management software JabRef.