
Netcat was started in the year 1995 and was developed until first months of
the 1996, when it reached version 1.10, released by Avian Research
(avian.org).

The credits for the original design and alpha source code goes to the Avian
Research team, while this development branch (called "The GNU Netcat") have
been started by Giovanni Giacobbi <giovanni@giacobbi.net>, to improve
portability, usability and features design.

Official project homepage: http://netcat.sourceforge.net.
