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.