I liken the experience of movoing to GitHub very much to that of Facebook back in the day. Prior to Facebook, I would have never thought of joining a social net

I liken the experience of movoing to GitHub very much to that of Facebook back in the day. Prior to Facebook, I would have never thought of joining a social network, I never "got" friendster or myspace or whatever. Then a lot of stuff came together at the right time: I entered college and Facebook was college only back then, making it much more obvious what it did for me, it wasn't the ugliest thing in the universe like all the other sites, it was very simple and elegant, etc. Similarly, other source sites were always more of an annoyance than a tool. They were this thing that I had to navigate and fight against just to get to code: I much preferred hitting a directory listing to ending up on sourceforge. Then, again a lot of pieces came together: git came along, where social code actually maked sense and github took advantage of this showing me immediately the benefits of putting my code there, the site is beautiful and shows me the code on the first page, etc.