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Top million though! Still earliest 1%.

For comparison, I'm 208,820 and we're in the same year: I got that number 2010-02-23. So GitHub more than doubled user count that year, impressive for a "late to the party" growth.

https://api.github.com/users/fmalk

I'm at 18 years and ID 1653. It took them a while to gain traction.

They actually had meaningful competition back then, too. Bitbucket had free private repos and hg support! Back when that was still a topic.