[danso]

Such an amazingly useful tool -- just a couple hours ago I was using it to setup and launch an entire website from the command-line after having just learned that Dreamhost has a REST API for setting up DNS (which works in tandem with AWS's s3api CLI tool) -- and so actively yet quietly updating for nearly 20 years now...

Daniel Stenberg (curl's creator) posted a talk he gave at Google's Stockholm offices a few months ago...I'm sure he's told the origin story many times before but it was the first I've heard of its truly humble and hacker-DIY origins (he needed a convenient way to access currency rates while chatting in IRC):

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/09/17/blabbed-about-curl-at-...

The talk is worth watching just to hear not about what it's like to maintain a "hobby project" for a billion users, but for a nostalgic tour of Internet protocols at the time of curl's birth.

[whitenoice]

Here's another very nice podcast (changelog) on curl with Daniel Stenberg - http://5by5.tv/changelog/153

Another thing I really liked is the thanks list - http://curl.haxx.se/docs/thanks.html