True, much simpler. I guess a larger reason would be that 7+ years of using wget has wired me to its commandline. I'm so used to typing `wget -c "<middle-click>"` or something on the command line, that I just never considered creating aliases for alternatives.
'co' is already taken though :-)
With what? I've got no such alias here.
Maybe he aliases that to a vcs checkout command, like 'svn co'?
co and ci are the old RCS commands, and they're why you can do "cvs co" and "cvs ci" with CVS.