GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues

GitHub briefly offered to mail free CD-ROMs of public repositories to the first 1,000 requesters, widely interpreted as a jab at Sony's announcement to end physical disc production for PlayStation consoles in 2028. The offer, posted on X with a Microsoft form to collect shipping details, was pulled by noon on July 6 after it attracted widespread mockery — including jokes about GitHub's own recent outages, the 700 MB CD size limit being too small for large repos like Google Chrome, and questions about whether anyone at GitHub even owns a CD burner. GitHub did not confirm whether the offer was ever genuine.