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Daniel Stenberg reflects
on the 30th anniversary of the curl project.

libcurl runs in an estimated thirty billion installations today. It
is a rough estimate since the majority of all libcurl users never
tell us they use it, but we need to find it mentioned in their
credit screens, open source license windows or their manuals. A
super popular app might use libcurl today and not tomorrow, or vice
versa, which can make the numbers shift by several billions
overnight. In reality of course, once the pulse raise has calmed
down and your ego is content, these numbers do not matter. In our
corner of the world, things don’t change notably when we go from a
thousand installs to billions. We still work with similar people,
in similar ways, with similar challenges.