Irresponsible things to do with a time machine, series ???? out of ???:

Travel back to the first person to invent installers that don't contain the entire program and wave a spray bottle at them while yelling NO BAD PROGRAMMER

I want an installer, not a bootstrapper. Because want real backups not something that goes *poof* when you update or the server goes down.

@Doephin weren't they made like that because of floppy disks? ya there shouldn't be any other reason to do that..

@Tetanon No, this is a later thing. at the time of floppies internet wasn't reliable enough to really depend on. So you tended to get more disk 1/14 instead.

The installer which downloads the rest started like...late XP days I want to say?

@Doephin ah so like 18 years ago, i get what your talking about now, firefox's installer still does this..

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