[STEAM] Microsoft-owned GitHub offers coders chance to put their work on a disc in response to Sony’s decision to kill physical media

[Steam 0]

While rumors are circulating that

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

, much like Sony, is planning to phase out physical media with its next console, a subsidiary of that company has other plans in mind. GitHub, arguably the most popular code repository on the web, is now offering coders a chance to put their public repos on physical discs and use them however they wish.

“In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM,”

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

. Code is notoriously small in size, and any repository should fit on a 700MB CD-ROM, though I reckon you’d also have the ability to burn it onto a Blu-Ray disc if your code is significantly larger.

We heard you. And we agree.

In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM.

Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children.

Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it,…

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

— GitHub (@github)

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

“Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children,” it wrote. “Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let’s be real.” I mean, yeah, physical media has awesome advantages but also needs to be stored and stored properly. Put it in the wrong place for long enough, and you’ll see it degrade and deteriorate to nigh-unusable levels, though they say putting some toothpaste on it has magical reviving properties. Who knows.

Orders for these CD-ROMs are available right now, and I have a feeling that folks are going to jump on the opportunity, if not for practical reasons, then to just prove to Sony and

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

that the people still love discs and physical media in principle. I’m old enough to remember the advent of the DVD, the much larger and expanded version of the CD, as well as the early days of Blu-Ray.

Every house I went to as a kid had a stack of CDs, DVDs, and rarely Blu-Rays where they kept pirated versions of all sorts of software, video games, music, videos, and so much more. Hell, my dad still uses a CD-ROM music player in his car and has a hard time getting used to SD and flash memory.

Discs are still in high circulation and quite popular, especially in countries like Japan, where the future and the past clash directly and you can find CD/DVD shops renting and selling them.

So, it’s quite commendable to see a site as big as GitHub, and one owned by

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

at that, jumping on the side of consumers to defend a staple and cornerstone of the modern world.

/wp-content/themes/destructoid2025/assets/img/icons/likes-off.png0 The post

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

appeared first on

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

.

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up