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curl vs Stack Overflow
curl started first, in 1997, 11 years before Stack Overflow.
Why curl 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.
Why Stack Overflow lasted
- A decade of ranked answers is still the corpus every model trains on and every search result cites.
- Reputation as a game actually produced a library.
Questions
Which is older, curl or Stack Overflow?
curl started first, in 1997, 11 years before Stack Overflow.
How long has curl been running?
curl has been up 28 years 310 days, since 1997-11-11.
How long has Stack Overflow been running?
Stack Overflow has been up 18 years 2 days, since 2008-09-15.
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