Download
A download was a process of saving a file off the internet. (PROSE: Computer Virus File Sharing Alert)
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On 22 August 1972, Vince Cosmos anachronistically told Timothy Bold and the viewers of Listen to the Stars! that his new song, titled "Nefarious", was available to for download, but corrected himself when Bold asked him what a download was. (PROSE: Timothy Bold Interviews Vince Cosmos)
By 10 March 2005, a computer virus known as "RUFFCUT" posed itself, after learning its target's preferences, as a file desirable for download. UNIT issued a press briefing that warned Internet users of the virus. (PROSE: Computer Virus File Sharing Alert)
During the cleanup of Operation Mannequin, Lt David Judd informed other UNIT officers that any attempts to download footage of the mannequin attack would be subject to a bandwidth squeeze. (PROSE: Operation Mannequin)
The Tenth Doctor claimed that his Machine That Goes "Ding" could download comics from the future. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
After Petronella Osgood explained how 'everything' in the UNIT database had been 'heavily corrupted with huge chunks missing', Cleo Proctor joked that it sounded "like [her] laptop after [her] brother downloaded that dodgy copy of Pirates of the Caribbean 4". (AUDIO: Recruits)
On 30 December in 9,000,000,000, the Great Upload took place as the descendants of the human race uploaded their consciousnesses to the cloud. They downloaded into bipedal meat bodies another 500,000 years later. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)
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An article on the Cybus Industries website allowed owners of Cybus EarPods to personalise what content was downloaded into their brain with the next daily download. (PROSE: EarPod)
In River Song's World, Winston Churchill ironically chided the Eleventh Doctor for referring to records, asking him if he had ever heard of downloads. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)
