GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM(forms.cloud.microsoft) |
GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM(forms.cloud.microsoft) |
Thank you, for an awesome, relatively ingenious idea to preserve the history and highlight its significance in a human history, the love for discoveries and cooperation...
I love it...
Microsoft discontinuing physical copies in one week
Insert floppy #25
I would do it just for fun.
On reflection, I like it - it's weird. Old internet weird. Like someone with a couple hundred bucks and some time on their hands wants to do something they think is fun or funny... it feels human. I think we need more of this. Extra points for using a sketchy o365 form that looks like a scam.
From literally the first few sentences:
> If we can make you a CD, it may take a few weeks to reach you.
They just won’t send it to you. Also keep in mind that they say it has to be your repo - not sure how they’re verifying that but you probably won’t get it for that reason too.
This seems quite limited to be a real product, but also quite a lot for seemingly what’s just a joke to mock Sony for ceasing blu-ray production.
It’s worth mentioning that github does (did?) do some cool stuff with physical media archiving of code like the arctic project [1], but these CDs are burned, not pressed so they’ll only last around 10 years
OP should have used the shortened, more official-looking, link: https://gh.io/cd
Maybe I'm the dingus but, just not good vibes. Apparently it's probably "fine": https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476
Shout-out to the downvoters, may you continue filling randomly linked, MS Forms blindly from nameless accounts, eat your hearts out.
OP should have used the shortened, more official-looking, link: https://gh.io/cd
They're concerned about copyright for burning a public repo to a CD, but sucking up everything for AI training was ok?
OP should have used the shortened, more official-looking, link: https://gh.io/cd
It's presented as an official Microsoft product (the link), but it's just a random public-facing form hosted on Microsoft Forms from Joe Schmoe.
https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-produc...
Want your 200gb game shipped on 300-400 CDs? Just pay postage & handling ;)
I also heavily doubt its a joke. Shipping a thousand CDs is a drop in the bucket for a company like this. The free marketing they get from this promotion more than makes up for any cost associated with doing so.