Go uses a proxy for downloading modules, so there's no Github involved. And you could run your own proxy-cache if you wanted. In addition, your work machine has

Go uses a proxy for downloading modules, so there's no Github involved. And you could run your own proxy-cache if you wanted. In addition, your work machine has a local proxy cache of the modules you already downloaded. Go doesn't use a repository as a single source either, which is another problem in of itself.