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.
Who remembers when you needed a separate "Download Manager" to handle concurrent downloads?
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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
OwOarchist@pawb.social 11 hours ago
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DOWNLOAD FAILED. Retry?
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
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SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Thank the lord for
wget -c
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
Who out here still using jdownloader?
tinylightshow@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Fuck, I’m old.
obinice@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Download Accelerator Plus, my beloved 🥰
NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Damn, you guys are old. I couldn’t tell this apart from some latin inscriptions in Pompeii
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
The 2000 in Windows 2000 denotes that it was released 2000 years ago, meaning around the time of Emperor Augustus
folekaule@lemmy.world 6 hours 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!
ashitaka@lemmy.world 12 hours 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.
X@piefed.world 9 hours ago
Made the content I downloaded feel more special…
“Whew, gotta be careful with this one, I’m making two copies. On two floppies!”
percent@infosec.pub 5 hours 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
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 12 hours 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.
NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours 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.
X@piefed.world 9 hours ago
^ this person downloads
tonytins@pawb.social 12 hours ago
I still a use download manager for the biggest files. Just to be safe.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
I use a torrent manager
mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
I use them on slow sources as they open up to 8 dl streams simultaneously.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 12 hours ago
but zmodem can totally restart an interrupted tx!
DmMacniel@feddit.org 12 hours ago
And I shall raise you this neat program its the logo of flashget a download manager of old times
funkajunk@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Flashget was tight
58008@lemmy.world 9 hours 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 😒
myszka@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
You don’t now?? I think concurrency is still unavailable in modern browsers by default
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Well, you’ve got another think coming.
myszka@lemmy.ml 8 hours 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
Toes@ani.social 3 hours ago
I remember downloads having 40+ rar files so you didn’t need to restart the entire download.