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November 11, 2026

The best of what first appeared in the trends on this day (UTC).

30 years of Internet transfers with curl

Thirty years ago, on November 11, 1996 the young Brazilian student Rafael Sagula posted the source code for his tiny HTTP download tool online. That was httpget 0.1: a little over 100 lines of C code. Bare bones source code with almost no…

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