• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    13 hours 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. 🤷‍♂️

    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.

    • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
      1·
      14 hours ago

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

  • Toes♀@ani.social
    2·
    21 hours ago

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

  • percent@infosec.pub
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    23 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

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day 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.