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by autarch 357 days ago
> And big multiplayer OSS platforms like GitHub didn't exist until 2008.

SourceForge launched in 1999. I think GitHub is better in many ways, but the basic building blocks of hosted repo, issue tracking, and discussions (via email lists) on Sourceforge. I collaborated with folks on a number of projects on SourceForge way back when.