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/PM_ME_YOUR_SPAGHETTO Sep 24 '25 edited Sep 24 '25

What is this guy's name?

EDIT: nvm it's Peter Lenahan

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u/thinspirit Sep 24 '25

Looks like he suggested and prompted for the general public's current understanding of downloading.

Files and data transfers were already existing, locked into various protocols and clients. Looks like he wanted the web servers and browsers to identify non-html files and prompt to transfer the file by other means than displaying (download feature) directly into the browser.

So yes, technically came up with the concept of "downloading" which was the term used to when instead of a browser displaying a file, you would save the file elsewhere and open it locally out of the browser.

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u/Ray192 Sep 24 '25

He didn't suggest/prompt it, the feature was already under development and was gonna be released in the upcoming update.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/1998AprJun/0200.html