FTP Celebrates 40 Years

Words By Van Glass

Last Updated: November 25, 2022

FTP protocol turns 40.

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FTP was first proposed in RFC 114 over 40 years ago on April 16th, 1971. It has since grown to include the well known RFC 959 upon which all FTP clients and servers are based as well as RFC 2228 which has given us support for secure file transfers.

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