Mickey7

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

https://lemmy.world/post/43617380

Feb 26 at 10:16pmWeb
Show threadTony BarkFeb 26
I still use a download manager for the bigger files. Just to be safe.
Show threadoriginaluciferFeb 26
but zmodem can totally restart an interrupted tx!
Show threadmr_annyFeb 27
I use them on slow sources as they open up to 8 dl streams simultaneously.
Show threadSubArcticTundraFeb 27
I use a torrent manager which is practically the same thing
Show threadmacnielFeb 26
And I shall raise you this neat program
Show threadfunkajunk 🇨🇦Feb 27
Flashget was tight
Show threadashitakaFeb 26

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.

Show threadXFeb 27

Made the content I downloaded feel more special…

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

Show threadempireOfLove2Feb 26
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.
Show threadOwOarchistFeb 26

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DOWNLOAD FAILED. Retry?

Show threadempireOfLove2Feb 27

<YES>

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FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-

Show threadXFeb 27
Someone forgot to pray to the download gods… and fickle gods they be.
Show threadSubArcticTundraFeb 27
Thank the lord for wget -c
Show threadBoomer Humor DoomergodFeb 26
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.
Show threadXFeb 27
^ this person downloads
Show threadNOPperFeb 27
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.
Show threadNeilNuggetstrongFeb 26
Damn, you guys are old. I couldn’t tell this apart from some latin inscriptions in Pompeii
Show threadSubArcticTundraFeb 27
Fun fact: The 2000 in Windows 2000 denotes that it was released 2000 years ago, meaning around the time of Emperor Augustus
Show threadfolekauleFeb 27

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!

Show threadtinylightshowFeb 27
Fuck, I’m old.
Show threadmyszkaFeb 27
You don’t now?? I think concurrency is still unavailable in modern browsers by default
Show threadSpaceNoodleFeb 27
Well, you’ve got another think coming.
Show threadmyszkaFeb 27
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
Show thread58008Feb 27
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 😒
Show threadObiniceFeb 27
Download Accelerator Plus, my beloved 🥰
Show threadselokichtliFeb 27
Ah, yes. That was the name. Then I changed it for DownThemAll! which still exists.
Show threadMathiasTCKFeb 27
Yes, everything on the on the page or linked to on the page or wrapped in flash tyvm.
Show threadpercentFeb 27
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
Show threadToes♀Feb 27
I remember downloads having 40+ rar files so you didn’t need to restart the entire download.
Show threadVitoRoblesFeb 27
And the par files to validate and repair your collection of rars.
Show threadmoonshadowFeb 27
Who out here still using jdownloader?
Show threadselokichtliFeb 27
I still do, for some things (lists of huge files). Well, I did recently, but got deleted just last week.
Show threadMoonRavenFeb 27
Download Accelerator Plus.
Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Feb 27

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. 🤷‍♂️

I remember downloading like 20-30 parts of a single thing and having the task bar at the bottom just be full of download windows.