Post B0tkN5B2Oc8ZnAzRoW by matt@oslo.town
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(DIR) Post #B0tkD0S76hQsF9Al9s by selea@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-04T07:39:52Z
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Do you remember the "Download Managers" that people used back in the days? Does thoose still exist?
(DIR) Post #B0tkIte7KGuWs4b02i by KaraDanvers@social.chiefgyk3d.com
2025-12-04T07:40:54Z
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@selea yes they still come in handy
(DIR) Post #B0tkN5B2Oc8ZnAzRoW by matt@oslo.town
2025-12-04T07:41:41Z
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@selea I haven't seen (or looked for one) in a long time. But do remember them. I used to use one myself which was very useful for managing a lot of downloads of MP3s from music blogs when piracy was in its hey-day.
(DIR) Post #B0tkaLXSsIUkIlnxtQ by selea@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-04T07:44:03Z
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@matt Like "Free Download Manager"? :D
(DIR) Post #B0tkge8UdxqTiY82kq by colgrave@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-04T07:45:11Z
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@selea yep.. they still exist. I saw a college friend using it, tons of ads. Feels like a trojan
(DIR) Post #B0tkmf5C2JpsOKSAtc by tagomago@mastodon.social
2025-12-04T07:46:17Z
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@selea I think JDownloader keeps on trucking.
(DIR) Post #B0tkoUEJMHGvJKaYIS by matt@oslo.town
2025-12-04T07:46:41Z
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@selea I'm sure it had a red icon with a lightning bolt in it. ⚡️ The most useful thing was that AT THE TIME if you ran 50+ downloads in your browser and some of them failed you had to revisit the site to download them again. But the download manager had a "Retry" button. 😂
(DIR) Post #B0tlBZf3KZwCof6c9Q by aaron@social.caskey-demaret.se
2025-12-04T07:50:45Z
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@selea Yeah, and they all end in “arr”... 😉 🏴☠️
(DIR) Post #B0tnNUa8F2B4RicAwS by midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-04T08:15:22Z
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@selea I remember about 7 years ago, right before finishing school, my teacher used to fire up download managers on the school Wi‑Fi, without VPNs, just to grab pirated movies for us to watch before the year ended. That’s also how I first learned about download managers; she had a ton of them, xD.
(DIR) Post #B0uVu3hRbaKgc1NG6q by JSkier@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-04T16:34:17Z
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@selea They do; aria2 is pretty robost 🙂 I remember when download resumption became a thing; it made downloading #RedHat and #Slackware iso files easier over modem in the 90s, lol.