# Why FTP Could Soon Disappear from the Internet

<https://tedium.co/2020/09/25/ftp-internet-history/>

- Host: [tedium.co](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/tedium.co/)
- Saved: September 29, 2020 (2020-09-29T11:33:25Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

FTP is everywhere and this headline is overly sensational. I don't know who uses FTP in their web browser. I’m guessing pretty much nobody. Chrome dropping FTP won't mean a thing. But this is a fun writeup on the history of FTP, created in 1971!

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT159: Weekly Thing #159 / 911 Outage, Small Tech, Workflows](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/159/), FYI

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://tedium.co/2020/09/25/ftp-internet-history/