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My entire professional career CULR has been ubiquitous and the first choice to download from the command line. It's crazy to think there was a time before it ex
by xupybd 6y ago
My entire professional career CULR has been ubiquitous and the first choice to download from the command line. It's crazy to think there was a time before it existed.
- usr1106 6y agoIn the beginning of my professional career URLs, http, yet alone https, did not exist. So we didn't miss curl. Those were the days you travelled to another continent based on information from 10+ year old books and were unreachable for 4 weeks. And you continued to program when you were back home. (Although I have talked me into an account at a university data center without having any relationship with that university.)
- usr1106 6y agoSo if we assume that URLs/http/https started to become important around 1993 - 1995 that's 26 - 28 years ago. We needed to live 3-5 years without curl. I don't remember what I used back then. But I am sure I downloaded something outside of NCSA Mosaic.
- ipsocannibal 6y agoCURL FTFY
- josemanuel 6y agoWhat about wget ?!