Comment by JimDabell

> In 2008 you saved a file called index.html, dragged it onto an FTP client, and watched a little progress bar crawl to the right.

When I was first learning web development in the 90s, after a couple of sites, I switched to a hosting provider that offered a bit more control over the hosting environment. I discovered that they supported SCP and SFTP but not FTP. When I asked them why, they told me it was because FTP was old and insecure. I dig a bit of digging to learn about the situation, and sure enough, FTP was 25+ years old already and literally a decade older than the Internet (FTP: 1971; TCP/IP: 1981) and was obsolete and much less secure than the modern alternatives available in the late 90s.

This was a full decade before “the olden times” of 2008 that the article talks about, so using FTP even back then was a massively outdated way of working.