

Torvalds wrote git for the Linux kernel, and then GitHub popped up because most other projects couldn’t handle the decentralization. Interestingly to OP’s frustration, they were using a proprietary VCS before that, and people were just as frustrated about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#History
Every episode, Scully is “right”, but they show the comedic rush of the Illuminati-like group to patch up the cover-up as they’re being investigated.