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Free Code Storage and Web Hosting for Static Web Sites
GitHub (github.com) offers free code storage and Internet hosting service. It is a popular tool used for code collaboration and sharing, but it also offers free hosting for static sites via Github Pages (pages.github.com).
Fun fact
Git was created in 2005 by Linus Torvalds (the same person that created Linux. He described it as a “stupid content tracker.” The word git is a reference to the British slang term for “a stupid person”. Source: Wikipedia
GitHub Pages
In this course, we are going to use Github to store our code (and as a “cloud” backup service), and we are going to use Github Pages as a web server (free web host).