00:00The story of GitHub. GitHub is one of the most popular platforms for developers all over the
00:05world. It allows developers to store their code in repositories and also share it with other
00:10developers. But have you ever wondered how GitHub came into existence? Well, that's what we're here
00:16to explain today. So stay tuned. But first, if you appreciate the research and work that goes
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00:27Thank you. And with that being said, let's begin. In the early 2000s, the development process was
00:35very different from what it is today. Back then, developers would typically work on their own
00:40and only occasionally would they collaborate with others. This meant that there was a lot of
00:45duplicated efforts and also a lot of code that went undocumented or simply lost. In order to solve this
00:52problem, some developers started using source control systems like Subversion and CVS, which
00:58allowed them to track changes in their code base and also collaborate with others. However, these
01:04systems were not very user-friendly and also did not support things like branching and merging,
01:09which are now standard features of most version control systems. In 2007, a developer named Tom
01:15Preston Werner noticed this gap in the market and decided to create a better version control system.
01:21He wanted to create something that was easy to use, allowed for branching and merging, and could
01:27handle large code bases. After several months of development, he created Git, which was a fast
01:33and efficient version control system that was distributed and also allowed for multiple developers
01:38to work on the same code base simultaneously.
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