> According to the github history there was a hello world commit in 1972
> Git was written in 2005.
Not sure about this specific case, but it isn't uncommon to migrate from another version control system (e.g. Subversion) to Git while maintaining the past history.
Subversion was (to my surprise) only released in 2000, so you'd have to migrate from something even older -- perhaps CVS (released in 1990)? RCS was released in 1982, so you might have migrated from that. SCCS was released in 1972, so they MIGHT have used it, and kept those migrations going. But my guess is they fudged the git history as some weird type of historical documentation of where these languages came from?
I think they mean they made a legal alternative/equivalent to Popcorn Time that looks just as good. Not particularly useful or innovative, but I guess it does look alright.