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GitHub is a web-based Git repository hosting service. It offers all of the Distributed Version Control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features.

Big Picture

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Time Period Development summary Details
01 October, 2007 Development Development of the platform had been started. Logical Awesome was the original name of Github Inc.[1]
10 April, 2008 Product Desktop & Mobile integration had developed. [1]
05 July, 2009 User GitHub reached 100,000 users.[1]

Full Timeline

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Year Month & Date Event Type Details
2007 01 October Conception Github platform development began. 4 full-time employees worked & they topped 20,000 public repositories.[1]
2008 08 February Opensource software GitHub, became a desparate platform for developer to store project, merge, share with others.[1]
2008 10 April Product GitHub started Web-based graphical interface, desktop and mobile integration. [2]
2008 Product GitHub started a pastebin-style site called Gist that is for hosting code snippets. [3]
2009 05 July User GitHub reached 100,000 users.[4]
2009 27 July Repository Tom Preston-Werner announced that GitHub had grown to host 90,000 unique public repositories, 12,000 having been forked at least once, for a total of 135,000 repositories.[5]
2010 January Company GitHub Inc started to operate Github.[6]
2010 01 July Popular Language Ruby and JavaScript became the most popular languages on GitHub, with 19 and 17 percent of the hosted code respectively.[1]
2010 25 July Repository 1 million repositories hosted at Github.[7][1]
2010 09 September Project 97 Sunlight software projects hosted on GitHub. GitHub gets all the credit.[8]
2011 20 April Repository GitHub hosted 2 million repositories.[9]
2011 02 June Superioty Github exceeded Sourceforge, Google Code and CodePlex in total number of commits. It became the most popular open source forge[10]
2012 01 July Capital Github reveived $100M in a series of investment, primarily from Andreessen Horowitz.[1]
2012 09 July Revenue Peter Levine, general partner at GitHub's investor Andreessen Horowitz, stated that GitHub had been growing revenue at 300% annually.[11]
2012 01 August Project Some popular projects like "We the People" and it's mobile apps, iOS and Android for White House were released.[1]
2013 16 January User 3 million users mark and more than 5 million repositories hosted at Github.[1]
2013 09 May Open Data Policy President Obama singed an executive order made open and machine-readable data of government information to make his goverment more transparent & public for people. White House also started project open data.[12]
2013 23 May Repository GitHub reached 3.5 million users and 6 million repositories.[1]
2013 07 August Project GitHub reached 7 million projects by their users.[1]
2013 23 December Repository Github touched 10 million repositories.[13]
2014 17 March Sexual Harassment Founder and CEO Tom Preston-Werner and his wife Theresa engaged in a pattern of harassment against her that led to her leave the company.[14][1]
2014 16 May Project GitHub became a winner in Best Bootstrapped Startup.[1]
2014 17 July Middle Management GitHub introduced middle management system. Github didn't have middle management system before.[1]
2014 03 December Block GitHub was blocked in Russia for a few days over user-posted suicide manuals.[15][1]
2014 31 December Block GitHub was blocked in India (along with 31 other Websites) over pro-ISIS content posted by users.[17] On 10 January 2015, GitHub was unblocked. Again, on 12 Sep 2015, GitHub was blocked all over India.[18]
2015 26 March Attack GitHub fell victim to a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that lasted for more than 118 hours.[19] The attack, which appeared to originate from China, primarily targeted Github-hosted user content describing methods of circumventing Internet censorship.[20][21][22]
2015 30 March User GitHub reports having over 9 million users and over 21.1 million repositories, making it the largest host of source code in the world.[23]
2015 01 June Office GitHub opened an office outside of US in Japan.[24]
2015 25 July Funding GitHub announced it had raised $250 million in funding in a round led by Sequoia Capital. The round valued the company at approximately $2 billion.[25][1]
2015 01 September User 324 employees and 10 million users on Github. Various persons like architects, city government on Github to share their code.[1]
2015 01 September User 10,000 users per weekday joinning at Github.[26]
2016 Employee 562 employees working at GitHub, from all over the world.[27]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "History of Github".
  2. ^ "GitHub Wiki Page".
  3. ^ "GitHub Gist is Pastie on Steroids".
  4. ^ "GitHub QuantiModo".
  5. ^ Dascalescu, Dan (3 November 2009). "The PITA Threshold: GitHub vs. CPAN". Dan Dascalescu's Wiki.
  6. ^ "Cloudswave".
  7. ^ "One Million Repositories, Git Official Blog". 25 July 2010.
  8. ^ "Sunlight Foundation".
  9. ^ "We're in a brave, new post open source world".
  10. ^ "Github Has Surpassed Sourceforge and Google Code in Popularity".
  11. ^ Peter Levine (2012-07-09). "Software Eats Software Development".
  12. ^ "Open Government Initiative".
  13. ^ "GitHub doubled its repositories in 2013 from 5 million to 10 million".
  14. ^ Biddle, Sam; Tiku, Nitasha (March 17, 2014). "Meet the Married Duo Behind Tech's Biggest New Harassment Scandal". Vallywag. Gawker. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  15. ^ "Russia Blacklists, Blocks GitHub Over Pages That Refer To Suicide".
  16. ^ "Russia Blacklists, Blocks GitHub Over Pages That Refer To Suicide".
  17. ^ "GitHub, Vimeo and 30 more sites blocked in India over content from ISIS". thenextweb.com. The Next Web. 2014-12-31.
  18. ^ "India blocks 32 websites, including GitHub, Internet Archive, Pastebin, Vimeo".
  19. ^ "Large Scale DDoS Attack on github.com". github.com. GitHub. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  20. ^ "Last night, GitHub was hit with massive denial-of-service attack from China". theverge.com. The Verge. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  21. ^ "U.S. Coding Website GitHub Hit With Cyberattack". wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal. 29 March 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  22. ^ "Massive denial-of-service attack on GitHub tied to Chinese government". arstechnica.com. Ars Technica. 31 March 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  23. ^ "GitHub is Like Oxygen".
  24. ^ "GitHub Expands To Japan, Its First Office Outside The U.S."
  25. ^ "GitHub raises $250 million in new funding, now valued at $2 billion". Fortune. 2015-07-29.
  26. ^ "2 Reasons to Keep an Eye on GitHub".
  27. ^ "GitHub".
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