New forge works old forge version wont open.

[Ebenezer]

I downloaded forge 1.16.5 and the download open and i downloaded the client and it works great but i need version 1.8.9 but when i do download it it wont let me open the download but instead creates a notepad saying "

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
    at net.minecraftforge.installer.ClientInstall.getSponsorMessage(ClientInstall.java:326)
    at net.minecraftforge.installer.InstallerAction.getSponsorMessage(InstallerAction.java:59)
    at net.minecraftforge.installer.InstallerPanel.updateFilePath(InstallerPanel.java:236)
    at net.minecraftforge.installer.InstallerPanel.<init>(InstallerPanel.java:217)
    at net.minecraftforge.installer.SimpleInstaller.launchGui(SimpleInstaller.java:153)
    at net.minecraftforge.installer.SimpleInstaller.main(SimpleInstaller.java:40)
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1
    at net.minecraftforge.installer.MirrorData.buildMirrorList(MirrorData.java:84)
    at net.minecraftforge.installer.MirrorData.<init>(MirrorData.java:63)
    at net.minecraftforge.installer.MirrorData.<clinit>(MirrorData.java:17)
    ... 6 more

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why does this happened help because yesterday it worked  fine but  in the morning it said something missing so i restarted my pc and now this ^^^^ pops up .Help i need this for hypixel skyblock