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## In the beginning of www.ioccc.org
The long history of the [official IOCCC web site](https://www.ioccc.org)
may be viewed at the [Internet Archive Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org).
One may view several thousand
snapshots showing how the [IOCCC web site has
evolved](https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/www.ioccc.org) going
back as far as [1998 Dec 12
The long history of the [official IOCCC web site](https://www.ioccc.org) can be
viewed at the [Internet Wayback Machine Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org).
One can view several thousand snapshots showing how the [IOCCC web site has
evolved](https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/www.ioccc.org) going back
as far as [1998 Dec 12
www.ioccc.org](https://web.archive.org/web/19981212030016/http://www.ioccc.org/).
On 2020 Dec 31, the IOCCC source tree was moved to the [IOCCC winner
repo](https://web.archive.org/web/20210101211346/http://www.ioccc.org/)
on [GitHub](https://github.com). From this point on, the [official
IOCCC web site](https://www.ioccc.org) became a [GitHub
Pages](https://pages.github.com) web site.
repo](https://web.archive.org/web/20210101211346/http://www.ioccc.org/) on
[GitHub](https://github.com). From this point on, the [official IOCCC web
site](https://www.ioccc.org) became a [GitHub Pages](https://pages.github.com)
web site.
## 2020 Dec 28 bzip2 compressed tarball archive
Furthermore, an bzip2 compressed tarballs containing the released
IOCCC winner source code may be found under the `archive/` directory.
These files were obtained from the Internet Archive as
of [2020 Dec 28](https://web.archive.org/web/20201228005211/http://www.ioccc.org/).
See `archive/README.md` for details about these bzip2 compressed tarballs;
Furthermore, a bzip2 compressed tarball containing the released
IOCCC winner source code may be found under the [archive/](/archive) directory.
The file [archive-all.tar.bz2](/archive/archive-all.tar.bz2) contains all years
and the individual years are in the form `archive/archive-YYYY.tar.bz2`.
These files were obtained from the [Internet Wayback
Machine](https://web.archive.org) from the [snapshot of the website on 2020 Dec
28](https://web.archive.org/web/20201228005211/http://www.ioccc.org/). See
`archive/README.md` for details about these bzip2 compressed tarballs.
**XXX**: Change the references to _temp-test-ioccc_ to _winners_
when these fixes are merged.
## 2022 Dec 29 repo fork
On 2022 Dec 29, the [IOCCC winner
repo](https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner), from which the [official
IOCCC web site of 2022 Dec
On 2022 Dec 29, the [IOCCC winner repo](https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner),
from which the [official IOCCC web site of 2022 Dec
29](https://web.archive.org/web/20221231001721/https://www.ioccc.org/) was
generated, was forked into a temporary repo where it underwent
several thousand changes and important improvements such as:
generated, was forked into a temporary repo where it is currently undergoing
changes with several thousand changes and important improvements already such
as:
--
***XXX**: change the above text to read:
... where it underwent several thousand changes and important improvements such
as:
--
* Moving IOCCC winners into their own separate directories
* Fixing lots and lots of typos
* Fixing Makefiles and code to allow for nearly all winners to be compiled on modern systems
* Fixing Makefiles and code to allow for nearly all winners to be compiled and
work on modern systems
* Reworking the Makefiles to use a consistent set of rules
* Reworking the Makefiles to specific to the gcc and clang C compilers
* Reworking the Makefiles specific to the gcc and clang C compilers
* Replacing the various hint files with a README.md markdown that is more consistent across IOCCC years
* Setting up a system whereby authors of IOCCC entries may update their own contact information via a GitHub pull request
* Setting up to generate the top level years.html file via a tool
* Setting up to generate the top level winners.html file via a tool
* etc.
## 20yy mmm dd pull request
## 20yy mm dd pull request
On 20yy mmm ddd, the temporary repo was merged back into the [IOCCC winner
On 20yy mm dd, the temporary repo was merged back into the [IOCCC winner
repo](https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner) resulting in substantial improvements
to the [official IOCCC web site](https://www.ioccc.org).
**XXX**: Fill in the date when the pull request happens including perhaps,
**XXX**: Fill in the date when the pull request happens including the
size of the pull request and/or number of changes that went into the pull request.