the main problem with awesome repos is that they are append only lists. nobody wants to de-awesome a project.

they always start awesome and then degrade because while each individual addition may be awesome (questionable already), the cumulative unstructured addition will have every likelihood of being not awesome by law of entropy

This has existed for 10 years:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

It's interesting to know the very first "awesome" repo. Does anyone have an idea?

Checked if it were already listed, could not find it, hence here is my first contribution.