GitHub, two years old in 2010, was turning Git hosting into a social network for programmers with forks, pull requests and profile pages. Rails, jQuery and Node.js projects lived there, and "fork me on GitHub" ribbons appeared on project sites everywhere.
- Domain in 2010
- github.com
- Launched
- 10 April 2008
- Founders
- Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett
- Owner in 2010
- GitHub, Inc. (private)
- Status today
- Acquired
What people used it for
- Hosting Git repositories
- Forking and pull requests
- Gists for code snippets
Interface characteristics
- Octocat mascot and a grey header
- Repository pages with commit lists and a README
- "Fork me on GitHub" ribbons
Notable features
- Pull requests
- Gist
- GitHub Pages
What happened later
Microsoft bought GitHub in 2018 for $7.5 billion.
Archived on the Wayback Machine
Archived pages open on web.archive.org (Internet Archive). They are historical captures, not part of this exhibit.
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