> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://book.awalkaday.art/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://book.awalkaday.art/artists-proofs-and-ethos/git-usage-history.md). # GIT Usage History

The oldest `git` commits pushed up and signed by `daqhris` date back to [February 2016](https://github.com/daqhris/hello-world/commits/master/?since=2016-02-22\&until=2016-06-15). They may be seen as the remnants of an extracurricular passion that infused an innovative spirit into a student's life in the East. A lifestyle sponsored by an undergraduate scholarship, split between on-campus or off-campus landmarks, spent crossing over the [Great Firewall of China](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jun/29/the-great-firewall-of-china-xi-jinpings-internet-shutdown), and bypassing man-made virtual walls through private tunnels to wave [*hello* to the *world*](https://github.com/daqhris/hello-world/commits/master/?since=2016-02-22\&until=2016-06-15).

Much earlier fragments of his public code contributions were likely archived inside the GitHub-sponsored [Arctic Code Vault](https://arcticworldarchive.org/collection/arctic-code-vault/) in [February 2020](https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/), among notable human-crafted software artifacts, for over a thousand years. {% embed url="" %} **awalkaday 356-2017** {% endembed %} Looking way back, an initial foray into a central hub of GIT repositories in May 2011, at the [age of nineteen](https://github.com/daqhris?tab=overview\&from=2011-05-01\&to=2011-06-01) in Bujumbura, Burundi, seems comparable to planting a seed of innovation in the fertile soil of a burgeoning digital platform.

Screenshot of 1st activity, as Git user and contributor, time-stamped to 2011

That seed has since blossomed into a time-stamped nomadic odyssey — rooted in cyberspace, sustained by a wandering slender figure, and grounded on Belgian soil — `awalkaday.art`*.*

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