2 Netcat was created in the year 1995 and was developed until first months of
3 the 1996, when it reached version 1.10, released by Avian Research (avian.org).
5 The credits for the original design and alpha source code goes to the Avian
6 Research team, while this development branch (called "GNU Netcat") was started
7 by Giovanni Giacobbi <giovanni@giacobbi.net>, to improve portability, usability
10 Official project homepage: http://netcat.sourceforge.net.