Phil Katz, a brilliant but eccentric programmer, initially wrote a faster version of ARC called . When SEA sued him for trademark and copyright infringement, Katz didn't just back down—he decided to build something better from scratch. The Legend of Phil Katz

The "Zip" format he created, however, became the global standard. Every time you right-click a folder to "Compress" it, you are using the descendant of the tool Phil Katz built in a fit of competitive defiance.

In the late 1980s, the world of digital storage was a Wild West. Users on Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) needed a way to compress files to save precious bandwidth and disk space. The reigning king was , a format owned by System Enhancement Associates (SEA).

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