[nashashmi]

It was a quick way to share files. FTP as an internet application made a lot of sense. The only counter reason was it did not have password protections like SFTP did, and did not support encryption. But that is like arguing against HTTP in favor of HTTPS.

I don't think they put SFTP in browsers yet.

[notpushkin]

There was FTPS (FTP+TLS). Not sure if browsers ever supported that but I imagine it’s not too hard to implement iv you have HTTPS already.