First 1,000 eligible submissions will get a CD-ROM of their public GitHub repo to ‘Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children.’
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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,… pic.twitter.com/p1qxqjmnfa July 2, 2026
Above you can see that GitHub is lending its voice to those who reckon Sony ’s move is wrong or, at best, premature. The coding and collaboration platform, owned by Microsoft , states that “In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM.” Moreover, it appeals to the human side of computing, adding the emotive line “Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children.”
It isn’t April 1 st , so thankfully this is no joke. However, if you check out the above-linked GitHub Your Code, On a CD offer page, it quickly becomes clear this is a very limited in time/scope stunt.
“Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo. Yes, a real physical disc you can hold in your hands, no download required,” begins the spiel. But this is a very limited run of 1,000 discs, with applications required between July 2 and July 6 (inclusive). Limit one per person, with availability varying between country/region.
“Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real,” says GitHub. At best, these CDs will be framed and put on a wall, some becoming collector’s items or eBay money spinners (discs like 0001 or 0888 would be good ones, if they are numbered). Also, many will be lost or eventually/accidentally discarded, as GitHub seems to know. So this 'protest' is arguably 1,000 doses of expensively shipped e-waste.
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