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WinRAR releases new update and says it’s thanks to people finally paying (www.dexerto.com)
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[–] 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Kudos to the developers, hats off, but why does anyone use WinRAR today? WinRAR was a lifesaver when large files needed to be compressed and split into 1.2 or 1.44 MB pieces so they could be transported on several floppy disks.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I never did that in that era for some reason, maybe bc CD burning got there fast enough for me? The only program I used to compress and split files was pkzip

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    In the days of Napster, when it took like 30 minutes to download a ~4mb mp3, and before thumb drives and cd burning was a thing, it was a life saver when you got a new computer. Took hours to transfer over all your songs, but at least you didn't have to redownload and pray no one picked up the phone again.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Seems like winzip and pkzip had overlapping time frames for the same function, so it basically just came down to if people were more into windows or DOS. I was using mainly DOS for stuff like that through the mid 90s (distinctly remember getting Doom 2 from a friend on about a dozen floppies that I used pk(un)zip to install), even if I was using windows alongside it. In fact I remember being vaguely annoyed when I got a computer that had windows that ran DOS, rather than the other way around (maybe it was XP?).

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