Twenty-six years ago on this day, we shipped #curl 4.4. Adding support for specifying the port number for the proxy given to the -x flag. Simpler times.

curl - Changes

I suppose his book should've given us a hint

#IRC turned 35:

daniel.haxx.se

History of IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

Documentation and ramblings of Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of curl.

#curl and libcurl would not be what they are today without the help of friendly people like this:

curl - THANKS

(I just refreshed that page layout showing those 2927 names.)