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Timeline of GitHub

This is a timeline of GitHub, a web-based Git or version control repository and Internet hosting service.

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See also

  • Censorship of GitHub
  • Timeline of social media
  • Timeline of online food delivery
  • Timeline of online advertising

References

  1. History of Github^
  2. Linus Torvalds. Re: fatal: serious inflate inconsistency 2007-06-10^
  3. Cade Metz. How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else WIRED, March 12, 2015, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  4. Petr Baudis. [ANNOUNCE] repo.or.cz does full-fledged hosting now, and more 2006-10-11^
  5. Petr Baudis. [ANNOUNCE] Public Gitweb Hosting Service 2006-09-20^
  6. Tom Preston-Werner. GitHub Turns One! GitHub, October 19, 2008, retrieved February 20, 2022^
  7. Chris Wanstrath. The Blog Arrives GitHub, February 22, 2008, retrieved March 1, 2017^
  8. Josh Catone. GitHub Gist is Pastie on Steroids 24 July 2008^
  9. reddit (reddit.com's code) GitHub, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  10. yahoo (Yahoo! Inc.) GitHub, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  11. GitHub Gist is Pastie on Steroids 24 July 2008^
  12. Chris Wanstrath. Here's the Gist of it GitHub, July 21, 2008, retrieved February 27, 2017^
  13. Tom Preston-Werner. Blogging Like a Hacker Preston-Werner.com, 2008-11-17, retrieved 2015-10-10^
  14. History Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  15. Kirsti Marohn. Website offers peek at politicians' deleted tweets St. Cloud Times, April 9, 2015, retrieved 17 April 2015^
  16. sunlightlabs (Sunlight Labs) GitHub, retrieved March 1, 2017^
  17. Scott Stadum. Tools for Transparency: GitHub Sunlight Foundation, September 9, 2010, retrieved March 1, 2017^
  18. Tom Preston-Werner. GitHub Pages GitHub, December 18, 2008, retrieved February 27, 2017^
  19. Django Success Story Bitbucket 8 June 2008, retrieved 12 October 2022^
  20. Michael Arrington. Congratulations To the Crunchies Winners; Facebook Takes Top Prize For Second Year TechCrunch, 2009-01-10, retrieved 2023-09-28^
  21. twitter (Twitter, Inc.) GitHub, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  22. facebook (Facebook) GitHub, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  23. Tom Preston-Werner. GFM Everywhere! GitHub, April 20, 2009, retrieved February 27, 2017^
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  28. Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 Semantic Versioning, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  29. Cloudswave 21 October 2022^
  30. Ryan Tomayko. Introducing GitHub Compare View GitHub, March 1, 2010, retrieved February 27, 2017^
  31. Ryan Tomayko. Cross-Repository Compare View GitHub, July 15, 2010, retrieved February 27, 2017^
  32. Zach Holman. One Million Repositories GitHub, July 25, 2010, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  33. Andy Brett. GitHub Hits One Million Hosted Projects TechCrunch, July 25, 2010, retrieved February 24, 2017^
  34. Rick Olson (technoweenie). Making GitHub More Open: Git-backed Wikis GitHub, August 12, 2010, retrieved March 1, 2017^
  35. Tom Preston-Werner. Release v1.0.0 · github/gollum GitHub, retrieved March 1, 2017^
  36. pinterest (Pinterest) GitHub, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  37. Vicent Martí. Rolling out the Redcarpet GitHub, April 19, 2011, retrieved February 27, 2017^
  38. Kyle Neath. Those are some big numbers Git Official Blog, GitHub, 20 April 2011^
  39. Nadia Eghbal. We're in a brave, new post open source world Medium, January 28, 2016, retrieved March 1, 2017^
  40. Github Has Surpassed Sourceforge and Google Code in Popularity 2 June 2011^
  41. Github Has Surpassed Sourceforge and Google Code in Popularity 2 June 2011^
  42. About GitHub, retrieved March 1, 2017^
  43. Chris Wanstrath. Edit like an Ace GitHub, August 15, 2011, retrieved February 27, 2017^
  44. Drew Olanoff. Ship it faster and cheaper - GitLab is GitHub for your own servers - The Next Web The Next Web, October 13, 2011, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  45. Cade Metz. The Hardest Working Person At Silicon Valley's Most Important Startup Isn't a Person WIRED, October 23, 2015, retrieved February 25, 2017^
  46. Corey Donohoe. v1.0.0 GitHub, October 25, 2011, retrieved February 25, 2017^
  47. Ron Miller. At GitHub You Don't Need No Stinkin' Office, But There Is A Nice One If You Do TechCrunch, November 14, 2015, retrieved February 25, 2017^
  48. HUBOT GitHub, retrieved February 25, 2017^
  49. Introducing GitHub Enterprise GitHub, 2 November 2011, retrieved 13 July 2014^
  50. google (Google) GitHub, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  51. Matthew Burton. The CFPB's source code policy: open and shared Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, April 6, 2012, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  52. Scott Merrill. U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Gets Open Source, Publishes on GitHub TechCrunch, April 9, 2012, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  53. Peter Levine. Software Eats Software Development 2012-07-09^
  54. Alex Williams. GitHub Says Database Issues Caused This Week's Outage and Performance Problems TechCrunch, September 15, 2012, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  55. Alex Williams. GitHub Goes Down With "Major Disruption" From DDoS Attack TechCrunch, October 18, 2012, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  56. About GitHub, retrieved March 1, 2017^
  57. Alex Williams. GitHub Replaces Copy And Paste With ZeroClipboard TechCrunch, January 3, 2013, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  58. Alex Williams. GitHub Introduces Contributions, A New Way To Display On Profile Pages What Developers Are Doing TechCrunch, January 8, 2013, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  59. Justin Palmer. Introducing Contributions GitHub, January 7, 2013, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  60. Alex Williams. GitHub Passes The 3 Million Developer Mark TechCrunch, January 17, 2013, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  61. Rob Sanheim. Three Million Users GitHub, January 16, 2013, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  62. Emil Protalinski. The Chinese government appears to be blocking GitHub via DNS (Update: Investigation underway) The Next Web, 21 January 2013, retrieved 9 April 2015^
  63. Michael Kan. GitHub unblocked in China after former Google head slams its censorship Computer World, 23 January 2013, retrieved 9 April 2015^
  64. Thomas Claburn. China's GitHub Censorship Dilemma InformationWeek, 30 January 2013, retrieved 27 June 2015^
  65. China, GitHub and the man-in-the-middle GreatFire, retrieved 27 June 2015^
  66. Alex Williams. GitHub Open Sources "Boxen," A One-Command Tool To Ready Newly Unboxed Macs For Developers TechCrunch, February 15, 2013, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  67. John Biggs. GitHub Adds 3D Modeling Features That Make It A Printer-Agnostic Choice For Object Sharing TechCrunch, September 18, 2013, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  68. Ryan Tomayko. New GitHub Pages domain: github.io GitHub, April 5, 2013^
  69. Ken Yeung. GitHub moves its hosted developer Pages to a github.io domain over security concerns The Next Web, April 7, 2013, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  70. Robert McMillan. Now You Can Fork U.S. Government Policy … On GitHub WIRED, May 9, 2013, retrieved March 1, 2017^
  71. Open Government Initiative whitehouse.gov^
  72. Alex Williams. GitHub Announces Octokit, The Official Way To Build Using The GitHub API TechCrunch, May 31, 2013, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  73. Richard Fontana. choosealicense.com and GitHub's license picker Opensource.com, September 16, 2013, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  74. Phil Haack. Choosing an Open Source License GitHub, July 15, 2013^
  75. Earliest tagged release^
  76. Kevin Sawicki. Atom Shell is now Electron Atom, April 23, 2015, retrieved 2015-12-02^
  77. Electron/Electron GitHub, 11 February 2022^
  78. Ingrid Lunden. GitHub Hits The 4M User Mark As It Looks Beyond Developers For Its Next Stage Of Growth TechCrunch, September 11, 2013, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  79. James Pearce. 2013: A Year of Open Source at Facebook Facebook Code, Facebook, December 20, 2013, retrieved February 28, 2017^
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  81. 10 Million Repositories GitHub, 2013-12-23, retrieved 2013-12-28^
  82. J. O'Dell. GitHub doubled its repositories in 2013 from 5 million to 10 million VentureBeat, December 23, 2013^
  83. Nikhil Sonnad. Microsoft might finally be committing to open source Quartz, July 23, 2014, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  84. Frederic Lardinois. GitHub Acquires Y Combinator Alum Easel, A Browser-Based Web Design Tool TechCrunch, January 9, 2014, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  85. Easel Inc. Easel Blog: Easel Acquired by GitHub January 6, 2014, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  86. Ryan Day. Easel is a GitHubber GitHub, January 9, 2014, retrieved February 22, 2017^
  87. Neil Matatall. Bug Bounty anniversary promotion: bigger bounties in January and February GitHub, January 9, 2017, retrieved February 24, 2017^
  88. Kristin Burnham. How (and why) to start a bug bounty program Computerworld Hong Kong, October 15, 2015, retrieved February 25, 2017^
  89. Cory Doctorow. Whatsapp abused the DMCA to censor related projects from Github Boing Boing, February 21, 2014, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  90. dmca/2014-02-12-WhatsApp.md at master · github/dmca GitHub, 2014-02-12, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  91. Alan Henry. Atom, the Text Editor from GitHub, Goes Free and Open-Source Lifehacker, May 8, 2014^
  92. Frederic Lardinois. GitHub Open Sources Its Atom Text Editor TechCrunch, May 6, 2014^
  93. Introducing Atom Atom, 26 February 2014, retrieved 15 August 2015^
  94. Sam Biddle, Nitasha Tiku. Meet the Married Duo Behind Tech's Biggest New Harassment Scandal Vallywag, Gawker, March 17, 2014, retrieved March 17, 2014^
  95. Claire Cain Miller. GitHub Founder Resigns After Investigation Bits, The New York Times, April 21, 2014^
  96. Alex Wilhelm. GitHub Denies Allegations Of "Gender-Based Harassment," Co-Founder Preston-Werner Resigns TechCrunch, April 21, 2014^
  97. Follow up to the investigation results GitHub, April 28, 2014^
  98. Frederic Lardinois. GitHub Open Sources Its Atom Text Editor TechCrunch, May 6, 2014, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  99. Frederic Lardinois. GitHub Partners With DigitalOcean, Unreal Engine, Others To Give Students Free Access To Developer Tools TechCrunch, October 7, 2014, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  100. GitHub Student Developer Pack GitHub Education, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  101. John Britton. The best developer tools, now free for students GitHub, October 7, 2014, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  102. Ingrid Lunden. Russia Blacklists, Blocks GitHub Over Pages That Refer To Suicide TechCrunch, 3 December 2014, retrieved 1 April 2015^
  103. Никита Лихачёв. AliExpress, 2ch и GitHub попали в реестр запрещённых сайтов TJournal, 2 October 2014, retrieved 9 April 2015^
  104. GitHub, Vimeo and 30 more sites blocked in India over content from ISIS thenextweb.com, The Next Web, 2014-12-31^
  105. Violet Blue. India blocks 32 websites, including GitHub, Internet Archive, Pastebin, Vimeo ZDNet, December 31, 2014, retrieved November 19, 2024^
  106. GitHub Doubles Down on Maximum Bug Bounty Payouts Threatpost, January 29, 2015, retrieved February 27, 2017^
  107. White House open-sources budget data on GitHub VentureBeat, February 2, 2015, retrieved February 27, 2017^
  108. GitHub - WhiteHouse/budgetdata: The data behind the President's 2016 Budget GitHub, retrieved February 27, 2017^
  109. Build software better, together GitHub, retrieved March 1, 2017^
  110. ((Google Project Hosting)). Bidding farewell to Google Code Google Open Source Blog, 2015-03-12, retrieved 12 March 2015^
  111. Information about Google Code's read-only transition retrieved 25 August 2015^
  112. Large Scale DDoS Attack on github.com github.com, GitHub, 27 March 2015, retrieved 31 March 2015^
  113. Last night, GitHub was hit with massive denial-of-service attack from China theverge.com, The Verge, 27 March 2015, retrieved 27 March 2015^
  114. U.S. Coding Website GitHub Hit With Cyberattack wsj.com, The Wall Street Journal, 29 March 2015, retrieved 29 March 2015^
  115. Massive denial-of-service attack on GitHub tied to Chinese government arstechnica.com, Ars Technica, 31 March 2015, retrieved 1 April 2015^
  116. GitHub is Like Oxygen^
  117. Rick Olson (technoweenie). Announcing Git Large File Storage (LFS) GitHub, April 8, 2015, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  118. Git Large File Storage Git Large File Storage, GitHub, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  119. Jordan Novet. GitHub Enterprise comes to Microsoft Azure, GitHub launches Visual Studio 2015 integrations VentureBeat, April 30, 2015, retrieved February 27, 2017^
  120. Sam Lambert. Hello World GitHub Engineering, GitHub, May 19, 2015, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  121. Jon Russell. GitHub Expands To Japan, Its First Office Outside The U.S. TechCrunch, June 4, 2015, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  122. Daisuke Don Horie. Announcing GitHub Japan GitHub, June 3, 2015, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  123. Frederic Lardinois. GitHub's Atom Text Editor Hits 1.0, Now Has Over 350,000 Monthly Active Users TechCrunch, June 25, 2015, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  124. Cade Metz. GitHub Atom's Code-Editor Nerds Take Over Their Universe WIRED, June 25, 2015, retrieved February 27, 2017^
  125. GitHub raises $250 million in new funding, now valued at $2 billion Fortune, 2015-07-29^
  126. Joab Jackson. GitHub launches desktop client to lure more developers PCWorld, August 12, 2015, retrieved February 27, 2017^
  127. Amy Palamountain. GitHub Desktop is now available GitHub, August 12, 2015, retrieved February 27, 2017^
  128. Build software better, together GitHub, retrieved March 1, 2017^
  129. 2 Reasons to Keep an Eye on GitHub 27 February 2013^
  130. Cade Metz. GitHub Open Sources a Tool That Teaches Students to Code WIRED, September 22, 2015, retrieved February 27, 2017^
  131. Chris Wanstrath - 40 Under 40 Fortune, September 24, 2015, retrieved February 27, 2017^
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  133. Frederic Lardinois. GitHub Launches Support For U2F Security Keys TechCrunch, October 1, 2015, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  134. Matt Weinberger. GitHub, the $2 billion 'Facebook for programmers,' has a plan to get even bigger Business Insider, October 1, 2015, retrieved February 28, 2017^
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  136. Jacob Kastrenakes. Apple's new programming language Swift is now open source The Verge, December 3, 2015, retrieved February 28, 2017^
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  138. Apple's GitHub organization page as of July 9, 2015, showing no public repositories GitHub, July 9, 2015, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  139. Jordan Novet. GitHub's Atom text editor hits 1 million monthly active users VentureBeat, March 28, 2016, retrieved February 25, 2017^
  140. A hackable text editor for the 21st Century Atom, retrieved February 25, 2017^
  141. Cade Metz. Triple Play: GitHub's Code Now Lives in Three Places at Once WIRED, April 5, 2016, retrieved February 25, 2017^
  142. Introducing DGit GitHub Engineering, April 5, 2016, retrieved February 25, 2017^
  143. Building resilience in Spokes GitHub Engineering, September 7, 2016, retrieved February 25, 2017^
  144. Klint Finley. JavaScript Conquered the Web. Now It's Taking Over the Desktop WIRED, May 12, 2016, retrieved February 24, 2017^
  145. electron v1.0.0 GitHub^
  146. Serdar Yegulalp. GitHub ushers in unlimited private repositories InfoWorld, May 11, 2016, retrieved February 24, 2017^
  147. Kakul Srivastava. Introducing unlimited private repositories GitHub, May 10, 2016, retrieved February 24, 2017^
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  149. John Mannes. Nike releases open-source software to play with the techies TechCrunch, July 6, 2016, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  150. Dan O'Shea. Nike releases open source code on GitHub Retail Dive, July 7, 2016, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  151. Program GitHub Universe, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  152. Frequently Asked Questions GitHub Universe, retrieved February 28, 2017^
  153. Gordon Hunt. Turkey blocked GitHub and Dropbox to hide leaks – reports Silicon Republic, 10 October 2016^
  154. Build software better, together GitHub, retrieved March 1, 2017^
  155. Nadia Eghbal. Announcing Open Source Guides GitHub, February 14, 2017^
  156. gdad-s-river. How To Contribute To Open Source? — GitHub Just Released A Massive Guide To Help You Fossbytes, February 18, 2017, retrieved February 23, 2017^
  157. Jason Warner. Future of Software: Developers at the center of the universe GitHub, October 16, 2018, retrieved November 26, 2021^
  158. Tim Anderson. GitHub slurps open-source bug zapping automator Dependabot, chucks cash at devs theregister.com^
  159. GitHub acquires code analysis tool Semmle TechCrunch, 18 September 2019, retrieved 2022-05-30^
  160. npm is joining GitHub The GitHub Blog, 2020-03-16, retrieved 2020-04-07^