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

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• obinice@lemmy.world ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Download Accelerator Plus, my beloved 🥰

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• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    95%

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    DOWNLOAD FAILED. Retry?

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    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      <YES>

      0% 0% 1% 2%…

      FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Thank the lord for wget -c

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• tinylightshow@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck, I’m old.

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• ashitaka@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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  • X@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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• NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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  • X@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    ^ this person downloads

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• myszka@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Well, you’ve got another think coming.

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    • myszka@lemmy.ml ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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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• tonytins@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I use a torrent manager

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  • mr_anny@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    but zmodem can totally restart an interrupted tx!

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• 58008@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Flashget was tight

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