I spent a while trying to work out what that had been abbreviated from

My personal same is that since wget url did what I wanted, I took too long to learn how to curl a url to a file.

The ability to submit a story using a curl would have been fun.

TLDR: Curl has been around for 10,000 days and they’re collecting user stories.

Back in the 00s we had a misbehaving application distributed on about 20 servers that would go haywire from time to time. I built a server monitoring solution consisting of a cgi bin shell script that cat’d a bunch of /proc info together, then curled them from a central server and formatted into an html page that one could refresh every few seconds to monitor server health. Then I could go in and restart the node before the business users started screaming. They were too cheap to buy an existing solution to do this.

Don’t miss those days at all.

c10k was already a (different) thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem

Curl has been in my toolbelt for perhaps 9000 days. Can’t remember when I discovered the retry/timeout options, but that allowed me to remove a large chunk of buggy bash code, from a semi important cron job.