30 years of Internet transfers with curl
lumpa
38 points
1 comment
November 12, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (1 comments)
moritzwarhier
What an intro. I love it because of the simple statements in favor of "practice before theory": > Thirty years ago, on November 11, 1996 the young Brazilian student Rafael Sagula posted the source code for his tiny HTTP download tool online. That was httpget 0.1: a little over 100 lines of C code. Bare bones source code with almost no error checks and limited functionality. > httpget > When I found the source code of that initial httpget release just days after Rafael put it online, I had no idea how HTTP worked