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A thousand years, lost in the blink of an eye (quokk.au)

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had GetRight to do that. The great thing about it was that it could also work with multiple mirrors. So you would download the same file from multiple servers at once.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

GetRight was the bomb.

Then I got fast internet (we're talking 25 MBit DSL here) and servers stopped being so stingy and download managers slowly became a thing of the past.

And then, a year or so ago, I had to work on a company VM that would randomly reset the connection to GitHub, from which I needed a rather large file. So I wrote a super cheap download manager and named it GetWrong in honor of the hero of my ISDN days.