• itisileclerk@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    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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      9 hours ago

      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

      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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        7 hours ago

        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.