There just wasn’t an appreciation for version control - and a lot of practices - at most companies until the mid to late 2000s. And I remember a lot of dev effo

There just wasn’t an appreciation for version control - and a lot of practices - at most companies until the mid to late 2000s. And I remember a lot of dev effort was spent dealing with internal SVN servers sitting in a closet. And other infra to do nightly builds etc. Management and IT didn’t understand why they would want these things. Very few companies internalized these practices and usually learned the hard way to adopt them. So back then these were somewhat new and radical ideas. But along comes GitHub, focusing on massive ease of use, and outsource an annoying hassle of most dev teams. At the same time it was becoming more common to use open source libraries at work. But only sporadically and cautiously. I remember the work to get Boost (C++ lib) approved by legal. And that’s an extremely mainstream library. Often you would have to purchase or just write a lot of foundational code yourself. So making a hosting solution with all these bells and whistles, but easy to learn, while also making it possible to discover code was fundamentally life altering for software engineering.