Timing is everything. I remember when I first learned Git, and learned of GitHub. One, I had no idea of any alternatives to GitHub. Two, like many others new to them, I didn’t realize Git and GitHub weren’t just different names for the same thing. 

WeAreAllSatoshi

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This is one of github's cofounders, and the author of [Pro Git](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2), responding to other people's assessments of why github succeeded. 

> I can boil it down to exactly two reasons that happened to resonate with each other at the perfect frequency.
>
> 1. GitHub started at the right time
> 2. GitHub had good taste