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Jonathan Corbet

Perhaps it's just me, but I do find it amusing that the GNU Readline 8.3 announcement, in July 2025, gives two FTP URLs as the primary way to obtain the software. I don't remember when I last fired up an FTP client, and my web browser has long since forgotten how to do it too.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2025-07/msg00004.html
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@corbet FTP and Gopher never died.

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@corbet To this day I have not understood why the hell Firefox and other browsers had to drop FTP support.

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@corbet we keep ftp support in for readline 😁

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