Using github.com as a host is like going to a restaurant that has a sign posted saying "We reserve the right to spit in your food." They probably won't, but if they do, too bad. You were warned.

Given that anyone can run git or CVS, or any number of other, in my view, simpler and superior code management systems on their own servers and mitigate the possibility of some stranger deleting your project because it contains something that someone else finds "offensive", only the foolish or the lazy or the unconcerned use it as their actual primary repository. It also sucks as an end user software download site, and I wish people would stop trying to use it as such.

To you, it was apparently smartphones and Java that "got people to use the Internet" because that was about the time that you became aware of it. In other words, you're very young. To me, I was one of millions of people that were chatting on IRC, Usenet, and Compuserve and surfing the web before smartphones or Java existed. Sure I'm old, but that doesn't mean that the information age, the period of time when data about everything began traversing the globe over electronic systems, wasn't already in full swing before it became part of your life.

What do you define as "the information age"? For me, the information age began in the 70s. During the 90s, people started using the Internet in droves, and the vast majority of everything was written in C: Linux, Apache, Sendmail, Bind, DHCP, PostGres, Windows, third party TCP/IP software... Sun started developing Java as a toy that would run as interpreted code in a browser, but the Internet was well established by then. Web sites were everywhere, AltaVista and Dogpile ruled the web, Cantor and Segal had spammed me, Punch-the-Monkey banner ads assaulted our senses, and Google and Java VMs didn't exist yet.

They should make this available some place other than steam.