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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
In the BBS days there were transfer programs that allowed for interrupted downloads to be resumed:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HS/Link

>>throw0+MB8
wget will pick up a dl where it left off. i know that "pick up where you left off" capability has been built into HTTP since the mid '90s if not right from scratch

i used to use that feature to run several downloads from several different sites of different sections of linux distro isos when new releases were put up