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@@ -23,17 +23,17 @@ the http-only days were already passed.
 
 The project slowly grew bigger. When upload capabilities were added and the
 name once again was misleading, a second name change was made and on March 20,
-1998 curl 4 was released. (The version numbering from the previous names were
+1998 curl 4 was released. (The version numbering from the previous names was
 kept.)
 
-(Unrelated to this project a company called Curl Corporation filed a US
+(Unrelated to this project a company called Curl Corporation registered a US
 trademark on the name "CURL" on May 18 1998. That company had then already
 registered the curl.com domain back in November of the previous year. All this
-was much later brought into the lights.)
+was revealed to us much later.)
 
 SSL support was added, powered by the SSLeay library.
 
-August 1998, added project curl to freshmeat.net.
+August 1998, first announcement of curl on freshmeat.net.
 
 October 1998, with the curl 4.9 release and the introduction of cookie
 support, curl was no longer released under the GPL license. Now we're at 4000