• PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    WinRAR was good in ancient times when it was the only zip program available. Even in the Windows XP era there were better things to use if you knew about them. I doubt 7zip was really that usable in the early 2000s but it eventually got good and nowadays 7zip is so good that of you aren’t using it, you’re doing it wrong.

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      Winrar in ancient times? Lol. People have been arching for a long time before that. Unix, amiga, apple, pc… that is a funny sentence.

      Don’t remember PKARK, ARC, and PKWARE? Zip became popular after the battle with SEA.

      I believe Winrar became popular because it was easier to use with multi volume archives. Which conveniently worked well with parity files, which all worked great for distributing on usenet.