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Also disappeared when http 1.1 added range requests around 1999

HTTP/1.1 was published in 1997:

But it probably took a few years to be universally adopted.

heh the shitty proxies i saw in uni still have issues with 1.1 5 years ago :(

FTP has been obsolete since 1999 thanks to ssh/sftp.

It should have died along with RSH, but people insisted on keeping it alive.

How about the disaster that is FTPS, or even more confusing FTPES. What were they thinking.

SSH/SFTP is mostly for authenticated access. The submission is explicitly talking about "public FTP servers" (i.e. anonymous access).