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The History of GitHub Awesome-Lists
- Awesome lists are a series of open source GitHub projects that offer curated content around a specific topic that readers will find...awesome.
- The concept of awesome lists started with “awesome-php”, which was launched on January 25, 2012.
- Awesome lists have become so popular that GitHub displays “Awesome Lists” as one of the options in the mobile app Explore tab.
- The initial traction and visibility of the awesome-list concept was thanks to the social and sharing nature of the Gists feature.
- The real inflection point for awesome-list growth was the summer of 2014 as several new awesome-list GitHub projects were launched.
- One of the interesting corollaries of awesome-list adoption was the challenge in maintaining them.
- The word “awesome” captured the ethos of the awesome-list movement and solidified the key distinction between collection and curation.
- Awesome lists are here to stay as an important part of GitHub culture.
- Collectively, awesome projects have gained millions of GitHub stars and they have proven to be a valuable set of resources for the dev community and beyond.
- The growth of the awesome-list trend highlights the value of thoughtful content curation, and emphasizes the collaborative nature of open source.
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