Editing Upload (section)

==Historical development==
Remote [[file sharing]] first came into fruition in January 1978, when [[Ward Christensen]] and [[Randy Suess]], who were members of the Chicago Area Computer Hobbyists' Exchange (CACHE), created the [[CBBS|Computerized Bulletin Board System]] (CBBS). This used an early file transfer protocol (MODEM, later [[XMODEM]]) to send [[Binary file|binary files]] via a hardware [[modem]], accessible by another modem via a [[telephone number]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Birth of the BBS. By Ward and Randy (1989)|url= https://www.chinet.com/html/cbbs.php|access-date=11 June 2020|author=Christensen, Suess}}</ref>

In the following years, new protocols such as [[Kermit_(protocol)|Kermit]] were released,<ref name="dacruz19860320">{{cite mailing list|url=http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/e/mail.86a|title=Re: Printable Encodings for Binary Files|publisher=Kermit Project, Columbia University|mailing-list=Info-Kermit Digest|date=1986-03-20|access-date=11 June 2020|author=da Cruz, Frank}}</ref> until the [[File Transfer Protocol]] (FTP) was standardized 1985 ({{IETF RFC|959}}). FTP is based on [[Internet protocol suite|TCP/IP]] and gave rise to many [[Comparison of FTP client software|FTP clients]], which, in turn, gave users all around the world access to the same standard [[Communication protocol|network protocol]] to transfer data between devices.

The transfer of data saw a significant increase in popularity after the release of the [[World Wide Web]] in 1991, which, for the first time, allowed users who were not computer hobbyists to easily share files, directly from their web browser over [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol|HTTP]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mwdwebsites.com/nj-web-design-world-wide-web.html|title=The Evolution of the World Wide Web|last=Enzer|first=Larry|date=August 31, 2018|website=Monmouth Web Developers|access-date=August 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118231641/https://www.mwdwebsites.com/nj-web-design-world-wide-web.html|archive-date=18 November 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Resumability of file transfers===
Transfers became more reliable with the launch of HTTP/1.1 in 1997 ({{IETF RFC|2068}}), which gave users the option to resume downloads that were interrupted, for instance due to unreliable connections. Before web browsers widely rolled out support, software programs like [[GetRight]] could be used to resume downloads. Resuming uploads is not currently supported by HTTP, but can be added with the [[Tus open protocol for resumable file uploads]], which layers resumability of uploads on top of existing HTTP connections.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://tus.io/blog/2015/11/16/tus.1.0.html|title=tus 1.0 – Changing the future of uploading|last=Van Zonneveld|first=Kevin|date=16 November 2015|access-date=11 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://tech.eu/features/6672/transloadit-tus-protocol-vimeo|title=Berlin-based Transloadit wants to fix broken file uploads once and for all, with support from Vimeo|last=Keane|first=Jonathan|date=16 November 2015|website=Tech EU|access-date=11 June 2020}}</ref>