Wget

GNU Wget (or just Wget, formerly Geturl) is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers. It is part of the GNU Project.

Its name is derived from World Wide Web and get. It supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.

Its features include recursive download, conversion of links for offline viewing of local HTML, and support for proxies. It appeared in 1996, coinciding with the boom of popularity of the Web, causing its wide use among Unix users and distribution with most major Linux distributions. Written in portable C, Wget can be easily installed on any Unix-like system and has been ported to many environments, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, OpenVMS, HP-UX, MorphOS and AmigaOS. Since version 1.14 Wget has been able to save its output in the web archiving standard WARC format.

It has been used as the basis for graphical programs such as GWget for the GNOME Desktop.

History

Wget descends from an earlier program named Geturl by the same author, the development of which commenced in late 1995. The name changed to Wget after the author became aware of an earlier Amiga program named GetURL, written by James Burton in AREXX.

Free Download Manager

Free Download Manager is a free and open-source download manager for Microsoft Windows.

FDM was previously proprietary software, but with the release of version 2.5 it has been free software. Starting with version 3.0.850 (15 April 2010), source code is no longer provided as a packaged download, but is available in the project's Subversion repository. Free Download Manager received a 2007 Webuser Gold Award.

Features

WGET

WGET (1320 AM) is a sports talk radio station. Owned by the Times and News Publishing Company along with WGTY, it is licensed to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. The station carries ESPN Radio, having switched affiliations from Fox Sports Radio in June 2013; they dropped adult contemporary music in January 2011.

History

WGET first aired on August 27, 1950. Robert Smith of New Oxford, PA was the announcer who put WGET on-the-air. Twenty years later he and Lester M. Blair of Gettysburg, PA an engineer/announcer were the only two people still working for WGET on August 27, 1970. The station signed-on with power of 250 watts. As an aside, Walter Lane, photographer and Ham Radio Operator W3KGN in town had a transmitter that produced 275 watts. In March 1961 Judge W.C. Sheeley who had made the principal address at the opening ceremony pressed a button in the press room of the Hotel Gettysburg which converted WGET from a 250 watt to 1,000 watts AM station and a 10,000 watt FM station. At one time using a single tower, there are now has three AM towers and a 500-foot FM tower.