the.com/curl
The command line's way of asking the internet a question and actually getting an answer.
means To bend or coil something into a spiral shape — or, as a tool, to fetch data from a URL.
from The word 'curl' traces back to Middle English 'crul,' meaning curly, likely related to Dutch and German words for curling or crumpling hair. The command-line tool cURL, created in the late 1990s, takes its name from 'Client for URLs' — a deliberate pun, since the program's job is to reach out and grab (curl around) data from a URL.
- born
- 1996, written by one Swedish developer
- name origin
- stands for client URL, not hairstyles
- everywhere
- ships on billions of devices by default
- real test
- if curl cant reach it, nothing can