> Now, given that a lot of importance is given to readmes README files are very, very old. As old as packaging software. To give you an idea of just how old th

> Now, given that a lot of importance is given to readmes README files are very, very old. As old as packaging software. To give you an idea of just how old they are, the file name is in all-capitals because when they were first used there were no lowercase letters in file names. The file would be called README and it would be referred to as a 'README' in docs. We just kept it as all-uppercase with modern operating systems with lower-case characters because being uppercase kept them at the top of directory listings. GitHub picked it up as the default description page because these files became standards in code packages, definitely didn't happen the other way around - with README becoming more popular with GitHub!