Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy
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- Planet Source Code was a popular developer community website back in the early 2000s
- Developers shared code snippets, utilities, samples, and tutorials there
- It served as an important code-sharing portal before GitHub became dominant
- The code shared was often practical solutions to common programming problems
- Small contributions like these helped shape today's open source culture
- Old code archives preserve software development history and evolution