I remember downloads having 40+ rar files so you didn’t need to restart the entire download.
Who out here still using jdownloader?
I remember pulling an all-nighter to make sure my Internet stayed connected and stable long enough to download Netscape Navigator. I think it was like 18MB. Previous attempts failed, and I didn’t know of any download managers back then
It was never about concurrency but it was way more about resilience against connection drops. You all know how unreliable dialup was of someone happened to touch a phone or a storm made the lines a bit noisy. Having a transfer fail halfway through, before browsers/oses had some concept of resuming partial downloads, was one of THE most infuriating things.
95%
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DOWNLOAD FAILED. Retry?
<YES>
0%
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1%
2%…FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-
Someone forgot to pray to the download gods… and fickle gods they be.
Download Accelerator Plus, my beloved 🥰
Fuck, I’m old.
Damn, you guys are old. I couldn’t tell this apart from some latin inscriptions in Pompeii
Fun fact: The 2000 in Windows 2000 denotes that it was released 2000 years ago, meaning around the time of Emperor Augustus
Old and tired: use the release year in your product version.
New and exciting: increment all your past product versions as they age!
Your users will love it!
Getright was my bae in the dial-up days. Saved so many large anime downloads when someone called and broke the connection due to call waiting. Or when the speeds tapered off over the hours and I had to re-dial my ISP.
Made the content I downloaded feel more special and kept my focus more than all this instant gratification nowadays.
Made the content I downloaded feel more special…
“Whew, gotta be careful with this one, I’m making two copies. On two floppies!”
I remember figuring out how to boot my computer late at night to resume downloads then shut down before my dad woke up in the morning.
I took some super easy college night courses just so I could sit on their network and download floppy after floppy of Doom WADs without spending my precious minutes.
^ this person downloads
FlashGet was my jam back in the early 2000s. Then one day it downloaded malware a malicious third party had somehow managed to inject into its updater 😒
I still use a download manager for the biggest files. Just to be safe.
I use a torrent manager
I use them on slow sources as they open up to 8 dl streams simultaneously.
but zmodem can totally restart an interrupted tx!
And I shall raise you this neat program
Flashget was tight
You don’t now?? I think concurrency is still unavailable in modern browsers by default
Well, you’ve got another think coming.
Okay I’ve confused concurrency for parallel downloading. The latter browsers still don’t do by default. And that’s the reason I used to use download managers
