Editing CURL (section)

==History==
The software was first released in 1996,<ref name="RelFirst">{{cite web |title=History of curl |url=https://curl.se/docs/history.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917071434/https://curl.se/docs/history.html |archive-date=September 17, 2021 |access-date=May 11, 2021 |publisher=fossies.org |language=en-US}} </ref> originally named ''httpget'' and then became ''urlget'', before adopting the current name of curl.<ref name = "cURL changelog, 2020" /><ref name = "Stenberg, Haxx SE, 2020" /> The name stands for "Client for [[URL]]".<ref name="Stenberg, haxx.se, 2018" /> The original author and lead developer is the Swedish developer [[Daniel Stenberg]], who created curl to power part of an [[IRC bot]], because he wanted to automatically provide currency exchange rates, fetched from a website, to users in an [[Internet_Relay_Chat|IRC]] [[chat room]].<ref name=history/>