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Check out what was the first item that you ever downloaded on your Mac OS X
-- Open a SQLite shell by issuing the command below
-- sqlite3 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEventsV*
select LSQuarantineDataURLString from LSQuarantineEvent order by LSQuarantineTimeStamp asc limit 1;
-- For me, it's GNU Emacs.
-- sqlite> select LSQuarantineDataURLString from LSQuarantineEvent order by LSQuarantineTimeStamp asc limit 1;
-- http://bandwidth.porkrind.org/emacs-builds/Emacs-24.2-universal-10.6.8.dmg
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nipra commented Jan 19, 2013

sqlite> select LSQuarantineDataURLString from LSQuarantineEvent order by LSQuarantineTimeStamp asc limit 2;
http://news.google.com/?output=rss
http://bandwidth.porkrind.org/emacs-builds/Emacs-24.1-universal-10.6.8.dmg
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sqlite> select LSQuarantineDataURLString from LSQuarantineEvent order by LSQuarantineTimeStamp asc limit 1;
http://bandwidth.porkrind.org/emacs-builds/Emacs-24.2-universal-10.6.8.dmg

But i am pretty sure the first thing I downloaded/installed was homebrew and osxmonad . It was done via git / curl so i guess they dont show up here.

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