From March 20, 1998 when the first curl release was published, to this day August 5, 2025 is exactly 10,000 days. We call it the curl-10000-day. Or just c10kday. c ten K day.

We want to celebrate this occasion by collecting and sharing stories. Your stories about curl. Your favorite memories. When you used curl for the first time. When curl saved your situation. When curl rescued your lost puppy. What curl has meant or perhaps still means to you, your work, your business, or your life. We want to favor and prioritize the good, the fun, the nostalgic and the emotional stories but it is of course up to your discretion.

We have created this thread in curl’s GitHub Discussion section for this purpose, so please go there and submit your story or read what others have shared.

https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/17930

In the curl factory this day is nothing special. We keep hammering out new features and bugfixes – just like we always do.

Thanks for flying curl.

The other day we celebrated curl reaching 25,000 commits, and just days later I received the following gift in the mail.

The text found in that little note is in Swedish and a rough translation to English makes it:

Twenty-five thousand thanks for curl. The cake delivery failed so here is a commit mascot and some new bugs to squash.

I presumed the cake reference was a response to a tweet of mine suggesting cake would be a suitable way to celebrate this moment.

The gift arrived without any clue who sent it, but when I tweeted this image, my mystery friend Filip soon revealed himself:

Thank you Filip!

(Top image by Arek Socha from Pixabay)