Open source software has existed long before the invention of the (D)VCS. The author likely hosted a barebones HTML webpage or a txt file describing the project. There definitely was an FTP server somewhere with tarballs. The author may have been reachable by email. If you were really lucky, there was a mailing list you could sign up for to receive announcements and maybe discuss the software with other interested parties. There might have been an unofficial IRC channel someone created under the name of the software so people could discuss it. This was and still is open source. No "community". No politics. No Code of Conduct. No pull requests or issues. No wiki. No core team. Later, we had sites like Sourceforge. You got your CVS/SVN and mailing lists operated for essentially "free", and it was easier to build in the open. Then came the DVCS wars which git decidedly won, and the world eventually converged on Github. "In the late 00's, Github was created.…