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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)

Oh yes. CRC Error was it?