This is a timeline of GitHub, a web-based Git or version control repository and Internet hosting service.
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Time Period Development summary More details 2007 Conception, initial launch, and core features GitHub is founded initially as Logical Awesome in February and the website launches in April. Core parts of GitHub launch during this year, including the company blog, per-project wikis, GitHub Gist, and GitHub Pages. 2009June 2013 Continued growth and product releases GitHub continues to release products including GitHub Enterprise, Redcarpet, and Hubot. Many companies that now regularly use GitHub—including Facebook and Google—join GitHub during this period. July 2013September 2015 Continued growth and product releases; outreach; attacks and censorship against the site; CEO resigns GitHub continues to launch a series of products and enhancements to existing products. For the desktop, it releases Electron, Atom, and a desktop client. In terms of outreach, it launches the Bug Bounty Program, ChooseALicense.com, GitHub Classroom, GitHub Student Developer Pack, and the GitHub Engineering blog. The GitHub website also experiences multiple attacks as well as censorship from governments. In April 2014, co-founder and CEO Tom Preston-Werner resigns from the company following allegations of harassment. October 2015present Change in pricing model GitHub changes its pricing model from a repository-based one to a user-based one; in the process, it introduces unlimited private repositories for all customers.
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