In addition to basic FTP functionality, Fetch includes such features as editing files without having to download them and re-upload them.
Fetch was created in the summer of 1989 by Jim Matthews, an employee of Dartmouth College.
Fetch was maintained and updated as a Dartmouth software project and was eventually released as shareware, becoming very popular in the Macintosh community.
For most of the 1990s it competed with Anarchie as one of the two main Mac FTP clients.
[1] In September 2007, Fetch Softworks hosted a back-to-school essay contest for students, teachers, or anyone else affiliated with an educational institution.