FlashGet (1999 - 2013)

before broadband made downloading boring, a file that failed at ninety four percent was simply gone and you began again from zero. flashget opened several connections to the same server at once and stitched the slices back together, and more importantly it wrote them to disk as they arrived, so a dead line cost you a minute instead of an evening. it came out of china in 1999 under the name jetcar…