ah yes, the late 1900s; when you wanted to share ideas with others, you sent them a document in a portable format. we called it, DVI
these days it is more difficult, you have to send them to new york for a central authority to affix a download count to the DVI
lord grant me the confidence of an organization that assigns a download count to a paper from the 1900s
@wingo
And you can't even use a deduplication tool to find multiple downloads now either.