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by sdkgames 908 days ago
gzip is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of LZ77(1977) and Huffman coding(1952).( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip )
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1986 908 days ago
DEFLATE was created / implemented / speced / whatever word you want to apply by Phil Katz no earlier than 1989
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arp242 908 days ago
"Based on" is not the same as "identical".
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