Discussion
What does the term ‘download’ mean?
Answer: D
Correct answer: Transferring data from a remote server to your own device
Downloading is transferring data from a remote computer to your own; uploading is the reverse. The direction is defined from the user’s point of view. The distinction matters practically because most consumer connections are asymmetric: download speeds are far higher than upload speeds, on the reasoning that people consume more than they publish. That is why sending a large attachment or backing up to the cloud takes disproportionately long, and why video calls, which need upload capacity, suffer on a connection that downloads perfectly well. The terms come from the era of mainframes, where a central machine was thought of as being above the terminals attached to it - data came down from it and went up to it. Streaming is a particular kind of downloading in which the content is played as it arrives rather than stored complete before use.
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