# Happy 50th Birthday FTP

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**Created:** [April 18, 2021, 12:29am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/happy-50th-birthday-ftp/179137 "2021-04-18T00:29:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 12:29am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/happy-50th-birthday-ftp/179137/1 "2021-04-18T00:29:45Z")

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FTP (file transfer protocol) celebrated its 50th anniversary this week. Long-time Slashdot reader [sandbagger](https://tech.slashdot.org/~sandbagger) shares [an article commemorating a half-century of FTP](https://www.filestash.app/2021/04/16/ftp-is-50-years-old/?ICID=ref_fark):

_Over the years, the FTP protocol got refined with 16 different revisions(\*1) adding support with TCP/IP, a secure extension also known as FTPS which is leveraging the same tech as HTTPS and more recent addition like IPv6 support._

 

_Fifty years after its inception, FTP is still going very strong with [millions of FTP server still being exposed on the internet](https://www.shodan.io/search?query=ftp) which is fairly amazing considering the bad press it gets…_