The authors of Wget are far from anonymous. Hrvoje started with the first version, but hasn't been around for a while now. However, it's not that Wget "lost" the battle with curl. They are two different applications with different use cases. Curl is predominantly a library, while wget focuses on being a small downloader application.
Only thing is, curl has far more contributors than wget. This is because of its licensing and it being a library. Not to mention the brilliant stewardship provided by Daniel.
P.S. I do often contribute to Wget and may be a little biased towards it.
You think €51 per GB is absurd? I have a Vodafone prepaid connection from Germany. Currently traveling in Switzerland, Vodafone informed me my roaming data charges are 17ct per 50 Kb.
A little back of the envelope calculation and that puts my rate at €3.500 per GB. Now that's an absurd value!!
Mutt deals surprisingly well with HTML emails. Most newsletters and other HTML mails usually come with a plain text version as well which Mutt will preferably display. Apart from that, you can make mutt pipe the HTML Email to a console browser for rendering. It works transparently. I've been doing this for a while now