Setting up your computer before you go to bed to download a demo for a game that’s… 20 MB large! Waking up in the morning to inevitably discover the download failed part way through.
Getright was my choice for years, until it decided to scrap an entire 600MB iso I had downloaded over 56k, and start over. Getright pissing me off was thebmain reason why I got pretty good at perl 25 years ago - I decided to write my own download manager.
Setting up your computer before you go to bed to download a demo for a game that’s… 20 MB large! Waking up in the morning to inevitably discover the download failed part way through.
Remember download managers?
Getright was my choice for years, until it decided to scrap an entire 600MB iso I had downloaded over 56k, and start over. Getright pissing me off was thebmain reason why I got pretty good at perl 25 years ago - I decided to write my own download manager.
Sounds like a villain origin story
I’m not denying anything
Where my download accelerator plus gang at
I remember using a program called Go!Zilla to accellerate and manage my downloads, you could even pause downloads!
Waiting for a single image to load on the screen from top to bottom, one line at a time and being charged per minute for the privilege.
I mean change mb to gb and it’s the same story today.