• The Dark History of Zip Files

    From Warpslide@618:500/23.1 to All on Wed Aug 24 16:51:02 2022
    There was some discussion here not long ago about Phil Katz & his alcoholism.

    I stumbled across this video today:

    "The life and death of Phil Katz, inventor of the PKZIP format, as told by Dave Plummer, the creator of ZIPFolders for Windows."

    https://youtu.be/1sV-3-vPx3I


    If you have 14 minutes & 28 seconds, have a look.


    Jay

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