If curl was created today? Sure. But curl was something new when it came out, and it truly filled a void both as a cli tool and as a library. It needed no mark

If curl was created today? Sure. But curl was something new when it came out, and it truly filled a void both as a cli tool and as a library. It needed no marketing. We needed it. It's hard now to imagine a world without a tool like curl, but quite a few of us are old enough to remember it still.