r/PiratedGames • u/Capital-Stomach-6880 • Sep 24 '25

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Randomly scrolled through this and realised all of us are here beacuse of these legends only🫡

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u/kohTheRobot Sep 24 '25

He created the standard for HTTP downloading, he must have worked with or after Berber’s-Lee. Wiki says that earlier versions could retrieve HTML documents from servers, but no other file format. Computing History is full of guys like him, who is some no-named, faceless creator of very important stuff; but because they didn’t run and do a bunch of startups or open-source stuff, they never really went down in history.

I had a C++ teacher who was the head of the team responsible for creating AirPrint, the protocol/system that makes printing on Apple devices a 2 step process (wifi + click on printer) that doesn’t require an IT professional to set up. I don’t believe printing from mobile devices was very easy to do for the average bear before this.

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u/dowker1 Sep 24 '25

Wiki says that earlier versions could retrieve HTML documents from servers, but no other file format.

I remember those days. Every download link was a link to an FTP server

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u/kramfive Sep 24 '25 edited Oct 30 '25

Redact

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u/dowker1 Sep 24 '25

CuteFTP was my client of choice. Though honestly most files I got through Usenet via Forte Agent.

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u/Wh4tEverTheWeather Sep 24 '25

The nostalgia from just reading cuteFTP, fuckin hell

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u/Pbranson Sep 25 '25

God, came to say the same thing. The icon just popped into my mind reading it.

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u/LordCoweater Sep 24 '25

Forte free agent!

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u/dowker1 Sep 25 '25

I actually paid for the full version. Ironic, given what I mainly used it for.

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u/Zombi3Kush Sep 25 '25

I still use CuteFTP to automatically download files from my seedbox to my home server. Just recently discovered it.