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HISTORY: correct some years/dates 

Thanks to archive.org's wayback machine I updated this document with
some facts from the early httpget/urlget web page:

http://web.archive.org/web/19980216125115/http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~sagula/urlget.html
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                          How cURL Became Like This





In the second half of 1997, Daniel Stenberg came up with the idea to make

Towards the end of 1996, Daniel Stenberg came up with the idea to make

currency-exchange calculations available to Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

users. All the necessary data are published on the Web; he just needed to

automate their retrieval.



Daniel simply adopted an existing command-line open-source tool, httpget, that

Brazilian Rafael Sagula had written. After a few minor adjustments, it did

just what he needed.

Brazilian Rafael Sagula had written and recently release version 0.1 of. After

a few minor adjustments, it did just what he needed. HttpGet 1.0 was relased

on April 8th 1997 with brand new HTTP proxy support.



Soon, he found currencies on a GOPHER site, so support for that had to go in,

and not before long FTP download support was added as well. The name of the

project was changed to urlget to better fit what it actually did now, since

the http-only days were already passed.

We soon found and fixed support for getting currencies over GOPHER.  Once FTP

download support was added, the name of the project was changed and urlget 2.0

was released in August 1997. The http-only days were already passed.



The project slowly grew bigger. When upload capabilities were added and the

name once again was misleading, a second name change was made and on March 20,