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25 Years of curl

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25 Years of curl

[Posted March 20, 2023 by corbet]
Daniel Stenberg observes the 25th anniversary of the curl project.
We really have no idea exactly how many users or installations of libcurl there are now. It is easy to estimate that it runs in way more than ten billion installations purely based on the fact that there are 7 billion smart phones and 1 billion tablets in the world , and we know that each of them run at least one, but likely many more curl installs.

Curl 8.0.0 has also been released (quickly followed by 8.0.1).

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25 Years of curl

Posted Mar 20, 2023 14:52 UTC (Mon) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link]

Pretty amazing. Thank you, curl devs and supporters, for so much curl! :)

25 Years of curl

Posted Mar 20, 2023 14:53 UTC (Mon) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

Nice article. I haven't used libcurl explicitly, and when I want to get something on commandline I use wget because finger memory. Also, I was today years old when I realized that "curl" gets its name from its last three letters.

Good luck to the project going forward and maybe I'll switch.

25 Years of curl

Posted Mar 20, 2023 17:09 UTC (Mon) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link]

25 Years of curl

Posted Mar 20, 2023 20:32 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

I remember the first time I have heard or curl in 1998.
There was this FTP directory where newly released source tarball where uploaded, and that day it was listing curl.
I remember I wondered 'why not wget' ? I never expected curl to become so important.
So congratulations and hapyy birthday!

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