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IRC made me do #curl

https://youtu.be/ohzzGy5K9Dk

How an IRC bot spawned the world’s most prolific software

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Show threadHisVirusnessMar 1
@bagder I was watching this earlier; very compelling stuff. I wonder what that Brazilian dev is up to nowadays.
Show threaddaniel:// stenberg://Mar 1
@HisVirusness unfortunately he is no longer with us. He died almost ten years ago.
Show threadHisVirusnessMar 1
@bagder Ahh.
Show threaddaniel:// stenberg://Mar 1
@HisVirusness https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20781
HISTORY: mention that Rafael passed away much too early by bagder · Pull Request #20781 · curl/curl

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, MQTTS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features - HISTORY: mention that Rafael passed away much too early by bagder · Pull Request #20781 · curl/curl

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Show threadSkaveRat 🐀 Mar 1

@bagder @HisVirusness I assume he was aware how his little project turned out?

was he still contributing to curl at some point?

Show threaddaniel:// stenberg://Mar 1
@skaverat @HisVirusness he knew how curl took off sure. His contributions I believe stopped maybe already in 1997
Show thread🔻 aetios 🇪🇺Mar 1
@bagder I'm going to guess little has changed and writing bots for e.g. discord is making young devs find out what they like. Although I'm unsure something as mega-sized as curl will roll out any time soon again
Show threadPatrick Loftus 🖖Mar 1

@bagder Thank you for sharing this. Very interesting history.

Thank you very much for making the tool I've been using for most of my life both professionally, personally, and completely behind the scenes.

Show threadHarry SintonenMar 1

@bagder Funnily we actually run Dancer bot on our IRC channel still. It's V4.16p1

This bot predates me joining IRC, but from what I can gather it was created sometime in the 90s.

It looks like I still have level 200 on it!

> piru [200] [email protected]

Show threadpLMar 1
@bagder IRC is my origin story as well.
Show threadAndrew  Mar 1
@bagder I watched that earlier and nearly fell off my chair when I heard Dancer mentioned. That’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time! Had no idea about the origins of curl, so that was a fascinating video.
Show threadMarcos DioneMar 2
@bagder "thirty five hundred contributors" (~14:02 mark)? Aren't you publishing number closer to fifteen hundred? I remember 1337 went by not so long ago? I just checked, 1447 is the last one...
Show threaddaniel:// stenberg://Mar 2
@mdione that's contributors vs authors. We count 3611 contributors, out of which 1447 authored commits. Contributors include people who report bugs and help out in other ways than authoring git commits.
Show threadtxt.fileMar 21
@bagder just watched that video and want to thank you.
Thank you for doing that video with theSerialPort.
Thank you for doing curl.
Especially thank you for *still* doing curl.