Who remembers when you needed a separate "Download Manager" to handle concurrent downloads?

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• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    95%

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    DOWNLOAD FAILED. Retry?

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    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      <YES>

      0% 0% 1% 2%…

      FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank the lord for wget -c

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• tinylightshow@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck, I’m old.

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• NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Damn, you guys are old. I couldn’t tell this apart from some latin inscriptions in Pompeii

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The 2000 in Windows 2000 denotes that it was released 2000 years ago, meaning around the time of Emperor Augustus

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    • folekaule@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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!

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• Toes@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember downloads having 40+ rar files so you didn’t need to restart the entire download.

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And the par files to validate and repair your collection of rars.

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• ashitaka@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • X@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Made the content I downloaded feel more special…

    “Whew, gotta be careful with this one, I’m making two copies. On two floppies!”

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• obinice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Download Accelerator Plus, my beloved 🥰

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  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah, yes. That was the name. Then I changed it for DownThemAll! which still exists.

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    • MathiasTCK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, everything on the on the page or linked to on the page or wrapped in flash tyvm.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • X@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ^ this person downloads

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• moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who out here still using jdownloader?

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  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I still do, for some things (lists of huge files). Well, I did recently, but got deleted just last week.

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• tonytins@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I still a use download manager for the biggest files. Just to be safe.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use a torrent manager

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  • mr_anny@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use them on slow sources as they open up to 8 dl streams simultaneously.

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  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    but zmodem can totally restart an interrupted tx!

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• MoonRaven@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Download Accelerator Plus.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t remember ever needing one for concurrent downloads, just to resume one if the connection was lost or something happened. But I also don’t remember downloading anything prior to being on Windows 95. 🤷‍♂️

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• percent@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And I shall raise you this neat program its the logo of flashget a download manager of old times

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  • funkajunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Flashget was tight

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• 58008@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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 😒

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• myszka@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You don’t now?? I think concurrency is still unavailable in modern browsers by default

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, you’ve got another think coming.

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    • myszka@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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

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