Tucows used to be such a quality site. Here's their 1999 listing for download managers (themselves pretty much obsolete unless you're connecting from an oil rig

Tucows used to be such a quality site. Here's their 1999 listing for download managers (themselves pretty much obsolete unless you're connecting from an oil rig): http://web.archive.org/web/19981202201711/http://www.tucows.de/manager95.html http://web.archive.org/web/19981202201711/http://www.tucows.... Their ratings were a good indication of software quality. My download manager of choice was GetRight, which naturally got the coveted five cows rating. (And I probably downloaded it from Tucows many times.) To get to that page, I first had to manually select a Tucows mirror from a long list. CDN was manual on both ends, the client selected the closest mirror manually, and the mirrors were sporadically synced. With a tool like GetRight, you could actually download large archives from multiple mirrors (by manually looking up the URLs and pasting them in GetRight); and, if course, (usually) resume a download when the dialup connection broke, this was a download manager's primary purpose. Almost mandatory for things larger than the average software utility. I guess I should stop rambling now.