SourceForge.net, ah, yes, a once popular open-source hosting provider, is now, not so much any more. Why is that? Most are pointing to their management blunder mistake where they started bundling adware with project installers without permission and taking over so-called “abandoned” projects to do so. Yeah, there’s not much news about SourceForge on Wikipedia, but it does have a link to an interesting article about its rise to fame around the year 2007.
20191008/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge
20191008/https://www.datamation.com/osrc/article.php/3705731/The-SourceForge-Story.htm
Ah, yes, good times, how I remember so vividly how I discovered SourceForge.net through osmosis… through “word of mouth”… my brother found The Ultimate Chex Quest, which used the Doom Legacy game engine, whose source code was hosted on SourceForge.net, and from there is where I learned about a whole host of other useful software.
From the Doom Legacy source code itself, I learned about DJGPP, then from DJGPP, I learned about Emacs, then from Emacs, I learned about GNU, the Free Software Foundation, and Linux. Then from both the Free Software Directory and SourceForge.net, I learned about a whole host of free, libre, open-source software, such as Inkscape, Stellarium, and many others. Also from a game from my brother callsed Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, I learned about the Quake 3 game engine, then the QuArK Quake map editor, then the GtkRadiant map editor, then the eponymous GTK+ widget toolkit. From Inkscape I learned about Blender by “word of mouth” reference in their documentation: “we’re not trying to compete with Blender.”
From miscellaneous math articles on Wikipedia I learned about Sage. From Sage I learned about VMware and played around with a Ubuntu virtual machine. From there, everything took off to get to where I am today.