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Remember when it was a big deal if you chose .zip, .rar, or 7z, etc? Now we all have so much bandwidth it doesn't matter. (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In the early days of the internet, WinZip was a must have tool. My college had a fast internet connection. I say fast but I bet it was less than 1Mb shared between everyone. Way faster than the 33k modem I had at home.

I used my college connection to download so much and then took it home on floppy disks. For files larger than 1MB I'd use WinZip to split files up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And then you get it all off the floppy's only to realize 10% of it is corrupted

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Oh yes. CRC Error was it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

And that's when you learned about parity files...

When par2 came out that was huge for me. Didn't use floppies anymore, but the ability to only download the required amount of parity blocks was great.