Such an amazingly useful tool -- just a couple hours ago I was using it to setup and launch an entire website from the command-line after having just learned that Dreamhost has a REST API for setting up DNS (which works in tandem with AWS&#x27;s s3api CLI tool) -- and so actively yet quietly updating for nearly 20 years now...<p>Daniel Stenberg (curl&#x27;s creator) posted a talk he gave at Google&#x27;s Stockholm offices a few months ago...I&#x27;m sure he&#x27;s told the origin story many times before but it was the first I&#x27;ve heard of its truly humble and hacker-DIY origins (he needed a convenient way to access currency rates while chatting in IRC):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;daniel.haxx.se&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;17&#x2F;blabbed-about-curl-at-google&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;daniel.haxx.se&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;17&#x2F;blabbed-about-curl-at-...</a><p>The talk is worth watching just to hear not about what it&#x27;s like to maintain a &quot;hobby project&quot; for a billion users, but for a nostalgic tour of Internet protocols at the time of curl&#x27;s birth.