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Computer file operation
In computer networks, download means to receive data from a remote system, typically a server such as a web server, an FTP server, an email server, or other similar systems. This contrasts with uploading, where data is sent to a remote system. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: DownloadA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Joint In-Orbit Computation and Communication for Minimizing Download Time From LEO SatellitesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: How Music Got FreeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Semi-Automatic Classification Plugin: A Python tool for the download and processing of remote sensing images in QGISCited 451 times
- Go sideways: Legal aspects of file sharingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: GroksterA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A file transfer to a given computer or device from a remote one through a network connection.
Noun A file that has been or is intended to be transferred in this way.
Verb To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.
Verb Synonym of upload: to send data from a given computer to a remote one.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Semi-Automatic Classification Plugin: A Python tool for the download and processing of remote sensing images in QGIS
ChemDraw Ultra 10.0 CambridgeSoft, 100 CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge, MA 02140. www.cambridgesoft.com. Commercial Price: $1910 for download, $2150 for CD-ROM; Academic Price: $710 for download, $800 for CD-ROM.
Privacy concerns for mobile app download: An elaboration likelihood model perspective
Reliable Multimedia Download Delivery in Cellular Broadcast Networks
Incorporation of health consciousness into the technology readiness and acceptance model to predict app download and usage intentions
Privacy concerns can explain unwillingness to download and use contact tracing apps when COVID-19 concerns are high
HydroDesktop: Web services-based software for hydrologic data discovery, download, visualization, and analysis
On the Delay-Storage Trade-Off in Content Download from Coded Distributed Storage Systems
🆕 Influential since 2022
Joint In-Orbit Computation and Communication for Minimizing Download Time From LEO Satellites
A C-V2X Compatible Massive Data Download Scheme Based on Heterogeneous Vehicular Network
DescribePROT in 2023: more, higher-quality and experimental annotations and improved data download options
climenv: Download, extract and visualise climatic and elevation data
Shopping app features: influencing the download and use intention
📚 Books worth reading
How Music Got FreeStephen Witt · 2015
BLEACH―ブリーチ― 62Tite Kubo · 2014
Beyblade, Volume 10 (Beyblade)Takao Aoki · 2006
The Downloader's companion for WindowsScott Meyers, Catherine Pinch · 1969
The complete idiot's guide to downloadingAaron Weiss · 1995
BitTorrent for dummiesSusannah Gardner · 2006
Beyblade Volume 12Aoki Takao · 2006
Downloading (Collins Need to Know?)David McCandless · 2007
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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