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Twenty-nine years ago on this day, #httpget 0.1 was released.
I found the tool a few days later and within a few months I became the maintainer. We later renamed it. Twice. The last name it got is #curl. It stuck.
httpget was my first insight and lesson into HTTP and since then I have kept learning it.
httpget 0.1 was written by Rafael Sagula, who unfortunately is not with us anymore.
@bagder it got him into heaven
@bagder Thank you from the heart of my bottom for curl. I curl one out every day.
Seriously though, curl is hands down the best network tool, right after nmap. Thank you for maintaining it so brilliantly for so long.
@bagder what was the second name?
@reynir In August 1997 we called it urlget: https://curl.se/docs/history.html
The oldest versions we still have: https://github.com/curl/httpget
@bagder hehe I see usage of unbounded string copy functions (buffer overflows), atoi with no validation and building up strings (prob injection) ... maybe archive (disable issues and PRs) otherwise the AI hobgoblins are going to start raising CVEs.
@bagder Does curl still have some of his code or has it all been updated and or removed by now?
@ruari httpget 0.1 was about 100 lines, all of those lines were replaced and gone within the first year or so...
I did a software / art project based on old code that was exhibited in Tasmania's MONA.
Though no one would know, or care, I made an effort to use original bitmaps.
I felt it was my duty as a "software curator/restorer" to use techniques similar to art conservators. It was just my personal philosophy I felt the software deserved.
Thank you for writing curl, it's super useful for troubleshooting web server backends.
I was astounded when I found you on Masto.
It's legendary!
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