Re: [ftpext] Happy 40th, FTP...

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Sun, 17 April 2011 03:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ftpext] Happy 40th, FTP...
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--On Saturday, April 16, 2011 22:06 -0400 Anthony Bryan
<anthonybryan@gmail.com> wrote:

> "FTP celebrates its 40th birthday tomorrow. Originally
> launched as the RFC 114 specification, which was published on
> 16 April 1971, FTP is arguably even more important today than
> when it was born."
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc114
> 
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/15/2324253/FTP-Is-40-Year
> s-Old

Hmm.   "...copy files over a TCP-based network...".  Well, not
exactly, since TCP came along some years later. :-)

    john