Yeah, I remember introducing a web dev company to SVN in about oh maybe 2006. Prior to that their "version control" was a webroot full of shit like "index.php", "index.php.old", "index.php.broken", "index.ryan.donottouch.php", "indexTUESDAY.php" and so on.

Yeah no, guys, that's not what I meant. Let me just show you this real quick...

I wonder if enough of freshmeat still exists on the Wayback machine to make a clone, maybe a skin for forgejo?

Simpler times, simpler everything.