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diff --git a/plugins/FTPFileYM/curl/docs/HISTORY b/plugins/FTPFileYM/curl/docs/HISTORY index e04fb53df0..3c140999ec 100644 --- a/plugins/FTPFileYM/curl/docs/HISTORY +++ b/plugins/FTPFileYM/curl/docs/HISTORY @@ -7,19 +7,19 @@ 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 released +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, |