Im going to claim to be the first person to democratise the downloading of videos for later watching from websites. I created this for google video, because at

Im going to claim to be the first person to democratise the downloading of videos for later watching from websites. I created this for google video, because at the time they had lots of car videos i was interested in, but it had plugins for youtube and other content providers i used. http://gvdownloader.sourceforge.net/ http://gvdownloader.sourceforge.net/ And yes, it was about a month after publishing that the arms race started with google. It was exciting at first, but then they started getting dirty, excluding me from search results and using whatever muscle they could to stop people finding the app. (here is a link the hockeystick download graph, it got picked up by various other distribution networks in between) https://sourceforge.net/projects/gvdownloader/files/stats/timeline?dates=2003-10-22+to+2020-01-20 https://sourceforge.net/projects/gvdownloader/files/stats/ti... I wrote it because bandwith was really expensive and slow back then. It was an experiment to solidify some programming concepts i was learning at the time, and also my first foray into browser plugin development.