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by FirmwareBurner 1006 days ago
WinRAR became popular at the time because the rar compression was superior to what zip offered (useful in the age of 1.44MB floppys) and the UX of the tool made creating, splitting and extracting archives easy for noobs.

It was a game changer in the days you would split a larger file into chucks the size of a 1.44MB floppy disk or several 650MB CDs. WinRAR made that process less of a headache for the non-tech-savvy user.

Same with WinACE which also dominated the scene for a while.

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Spot on !