Even today you'll see lay-persons use SSL, and some professionals refer to SSL for HTTPS and other secure connections. Two decades ago TLS was still not in com

Even today you'll see lay-persons use SSL, and some professionals refer to SSL for HTTPS and other secure connections. Two decades ago TLS was still not in common use among common tech professionals. While TLS was released in 1999, informally many still just thought of 'SSL secured' connections, possibly using SSL / TLS certificates. Additionally, as the Wikipedia article points out, TLS 1.0 was nearly still SSL 3.0, while 1.1 was released in 2006 and 1.2 in 2008 (which, offhand, is around the time I think the term TLS started to see more traction): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#History_and_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Histo... """ TLS 1.0 was first defined in RFC 2246 in January 1999 as an upgrade of SSL Version 3.0, and written by Christopher Allen and Tim Dierks of Certicom. As stated in the RFC, "the differences between this protocol and SSL 3.0 are not dramatic, but they are significant enough to preclude interoperability between TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0". Tim Dierks later wrote that these changes, and the renaming from "SSL" to "TLS", were a face-saving gesture to Microsoft, "so it wouldn't look [like] the IETF was just rubberstamping Netscape's protocol".[40] """