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An Acronym for File Transfer Protocol.

Not as relevant these days as the web has replaced most of the functionality, but this is how computer users who were on a network used to share files. Requiring a username and password to gain access to an FTP server, it became a convention that public areas of a server allowed the username "anonymous" along with any password.


See CategoryProtocols