3. History of TRAMP

Development was started end of November 1998. The package was called `rssh.el', back then. It only provided one method to access a file, using ssh to log in to a remote host and using scp to transfer the file contents. After a while, the name was changed to `rcp.el', and now it's TRAMP. Along the way, many more methods for getting a remote shell and for transferring the file contents were added. Support for VC was added.

The most recent addition of major features were the multi-hop methods added in April 2000 and the unification of TRAMP and Ange-FTP filenames in July 2002.