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>>saint1+(OP)
The author of this tool uploaded a YouTube video demonstrating it a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0

At one point in his demo, he uploads a file but terminates the upload more or less halfway. Then he begins downloading the file - which only progresses to the point it had been uploaded, and subsequently stalls indefinitely. And, finally, he finishes uploading the file (which gracefully resumes) and the file download (which is still running) seamlessly completes.

I found that particularly impressive.

>>skibz+M2
It's very impressive, particularly if you remember waking up to a failed download from the night before over dial-up.

>>nkrisc+S6
I recall we had special apps to queue and schedule our downloads, and resume them where servers supported it. They were a dream compared to the boredom of staring at progress bars.

>>paulry+5o
Anyone remember DAP, Download Accelerator Plus? The colorful bars were nice. A part of my childhood, downloading shareware Windows games through dial-up.

>>henry7+x21
Some apps still do the same, eg:

https://www.downthemall.net/

(also a great app to download everything you wanted from a site, regex selections, etc.)

Makes several connections and downloads chunks in parallel, for some sites with limited upload (their, your download) speeds per session it really speeds up the downloads.

Sadly, not much development recently (9 months ago was the last commit)

>>ajsnig+8H2
Wow, that's a throwback.