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>> It seems only last week it was called Ethereal and only last month when there was nothing really available to do packet capture and analysis that didn't cost a kidney.

Ethereal was released in 1998, and changed the name to wireshark in 2006 or 2007. Doesn't feel like last week to me, but then again different people, so different perceptions.

Yeah, I've used wireshark for years. But maybe I was late in the game.

Old-Age-related Time Dilation aside, it really has been a long time since you needed to pay for packet sniffing. I haven't done so since Microsoft released their internal "Netmon" tool to the outside, I think around 1993.

I love that they don't (appear to) use X11 on macOS anymore. What a pain in the butt it was to setup for a while there.