FTP Is 40 Years Old

An anonymous reader writes "FTP celebrates its 40th birthday tomorrow. Originally launched as the RFC 114 specification, which was published on 16 April 1971, FTP is arguably even more important today than when it was born. Frank Kenney, vice president of global strategy for US managed file transfer company Ipswitch, said that the protocol we know as FTP today is 'a far cry from when Abhay Bushan, a student at MIT, wrote the original specifications for FTP.' According to Kenney, the standard has grown from 'a simple protocol to copy files over a TCP-based network [to] a sophisticated, integrated model that provides control, visibility, compliance and security in a variety of environments, including the cloud.'"

Comments

Happy birthday FTP

[suso]

Now die!

Re:The cloud?

[mikkelm]

Of course we do. It's imperative in today's business environment to deploy file transfer protocols based on integrated models that work in the cloud with compliance. Just imagine what FTP was like before it had compliance in the cloud. I don't get how anyone got anything done.

RIP

[goodmanj]

FTP died in 1993, murdered by httpd and the Mosaic browser. I watched it die. I shed no tears.

Re:mod parent up

[pushing-robot]

You expect me to hire a portrait-man? I adjust my monocle and twirl my mustache in indignation, you son of a loose woman!