# curl

Standing (still-up). Founded 1997-11-11.
Site: [curl.se](https://curl.se)

Daniel Stenberg, 1997, evolving from httpget. Still the most honest HTTP client.

## Why it lasted
- It is in everything. Cars, printers, phones, install scripts, the kitchen sink.
- Daniel Stenberg has been the steward for decades. That kind of boredom is a superpower.
- A command that transfers data. The scope never suffered from ambition.

## Near deaths
- Nobody tried to kill curl. They just linked it. That is the safest near-death: invisibility.

## What would finish it
- A CVE so bad the world pins an alternative. The test suite exists to make that boringly unlikely.

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