What was used before GitHub?

Github was launched in 2008. Open source developers preferred Subversion, enterprises and video game companies used Perforce (some still do), while the Linux kernel project famously relied on a version control system called BitKeeper. …

How did people code before GitHub?

Before GitHub you had Google Code. Before that was SourceForge. Another vote for Sourceforge; even today it contains a lot of stuff.

Do programmers use GitHub?

With so many great tools available to developers, GitHub has become the place to be for open source software. Some of the biggest open source projects are hosted on GitHub, such as Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, Bootstrap and many many more.

When was GitHub started?

2008
GitHub/Founded
“For the next three months Chris and I spent ridiculous hours planning and coding GitHub,” Preston-Werner wrote in a post on his personal website in 2008. Wanstrath and Preston-Werner launched a private beta version of GitHub in January 2008.

Why was Github founded?

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, created Git in 2005 as a better way to build Linux. Git made it easy for many people to work on the same Linux code at the same time—without stepping on each other’s toes.

Who develops Git?

Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, took the challenge into his own hands and disappeared over the weekend to emerge the following week with Git. Today Git is used for thousands of projects and has ushered in a new level of social coding among programmers.

Do web developers know Git?

In terms of prerequisite knowledge, you don’t need to know anything about web development, Git/GitHub, or VCSes to start this module. However, it is recommended that you know some coding so that you have reasonable computer literacy, and some code to store in your repositories!

Who invented GitHub?

Tom Preston-Werner
Chris WanstrathScott ChaconP. J. Hyett
GitHub/Founders
The GitHub service was developed by Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett, Tom Preston-Werner and Scott Chacon using Ruby on Rails, and started in February 2008. The company, GitHub, Inc., has existed since 2007 and is located in San Francisco.

Why is GitHub logo a cat?

The idea for GitHub’s logo came from its “octopus merge” – the practice of combining three or more branches of development. Initially the logo’s designer Simon Oxley thought about calling his creation ‘Octopuss’ (combination of octopus and pussycat) to represent how complex code combines can create peculiar things.