GitHub Milestones

Chris Wanstrath creates the first commit for what would become GitHub

The pull request feature is released

GitHub.com officially launches

GitHub releases Gists feature for hosting code snippets

GitHub releases GitHub Pages for building and hosting websites from repositories

The issue tracking feature is released

GitHub’s chatbot Hubot is released and open sourced

GitHub launches GitHub Enterprise, an on-premises version of GitHub for businesses

GitHub reaches one million users

GitHub raises $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz

Contribution graphs are added to user profiles

GitHub reaches three million users

10 million repositories hosted on GitHub

The GitHub Developer Program is announced

The Atom text editor is made available free and open source

The GitHub Student Developer Pack is released

GitHub establishes GitHub Japan, its first office outside of the United States

GitHub raises $250 million in a Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital

GitHub hosts the first annual GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco

GitHub hosts the first GitHub Satellite event in Amsterdam

GitHub releases its first Diversity and Inclusion Report

GitHub introduces a searchable database of public data on the platform

GitHub Business Cloud launches

GitHub open sources its Balanced Employee Intellectual Property Agreement (BEIPA)

GitHub Marketplace launches with 14 integrators

100 million pull requests merged on GitHub

GitHub introduces a “first-time contributor” badge

Users added a total of 2,800,000,000 lines of code on GitHub in 2017

Microsoft announced it is acquiring GitHub