This comic is so old that at some point someone added Rage Comic faces on top of it, and that on itself must had happened more than 15 years ago.
And ofc after that someone sloppified the Rage Comic version. You see the modified versions more often than the original.
Meme and a history lesson, A+ post everyone.
Aww man - I just found out that one of the hospitals I work for has an active license for WinZip…
In the scale of dumb things to waste money on, WinZip is about as low as it gets (esp. in healthcare!), but still - it’s not like the poor bastards had any to begin with!
my company still purchases 3 billion WinRAR licenses every year
Three Billion??? 3,000,000,000 licenses?
In b4 the “my company still purchases 3 billion WinRAR licenses every year” comments.
Aww…
Haha, I was an entire hour ahead of them.
Not only that I copied it verbatim from your comment!
Plagiarized, even.
I’ll wait to hear from your lawyers.
But comment was not in before the 3 billion comment?
I literally copied it from his post.
And now you learned that your client does not sort comments by time.
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Do people even still need to use WinRAR? I mean, the rar format isn’t even that prevalent anymore, not even for piracy stuff…
It was useful 20 years ago, but like, most OS have native support for it now, making it even further useless to download a WinRAR.
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Yeah I thought everyone used that. Why bother with Winrar?
I think it’s mostly out of spite.
For me it’s nostalgia…
Arj for life!
On earth we call it Ark actually
I use peaZip because I’m a hipster
I use PeaZip because it’s the only thing I’ve found that can handle the ancient ACE archive format.
Literally the only reason WinRAR had ever been used is because people either didn’t know about 7zip, or their parents dropped them on their heads causing them to “prefer WinRAR” 🤮
Which OS has native rar support?
WinRAR supports compression and extraction of all types. If you have winRAR, you can make a .7z and a .rar and a .zip and .gzip and .iso and a .tar and a…
It’s what I used for an extremely long time, so i just sort of… kept using it. I’ve only recently swapped to 7-Zip. I think the only feature it has that 7-Zip doesn’t is making part files? But I could be wrong.
part files is what made WinRAR so popular with the piracy community. Especially back in the before times, when you were direct downloading and an internect hiccup would cause a download to fail/restart. Being able to download a thing in smaller parts, only having to restart smaller chunks instead of the whole, and then assembling the whole build as one… that’s what made WinRAR useful…
Compression was nice and all too, but self executing part assembly was the standout feature. Again, rendered useless when download managers are built into modern broswers. You can retry a direct download without having to restart the whole file.
the file splits, yea. but it was the recovery records that winrar has that made it become the de facto standard in that place we don’t talk about.
You can make split archives with 7Zip, no problem.
In ancient times, 2010, I actually bought Winrar. I wanted to support the developer. Even back then as a child, I found it so cool that someone would give me a very useful tool like this for free, with an infinite free trial. And then I found out about FOSS, after that my mind was blown.
Fuck yea. Be the change you want to see!
Rocket jump made a whole skit about this exact thing.
CEO: Holy fuck, those are numbers?
Thank you WinRar for all your years of service. I eventually bought you, because of your value as a product, but to make an arrangement like ours, possible for other companies and group to try. Here’s the product, if you like it, give me some money. Fairest deal you’ll ever make.
Have you heard of 7zip?
As someone who also bought a WinRAR license ages ago: yes and I hate 7zip’s UI with a passion. Sorry, I’ll stick to WinRAR which suits my needs just fine.
After using winrar for years (after using rar years before that… not sure if it’s the same company), I finally bought to copies a few years back. One for myself, one as a Christmas gift to a friend.
rar and winrar are from the same dude (Roshal ARchive, he named it after himself) and his brother handles the business side of things, been this way since the 90s. I THINK they’re still the owners of it. But these days, the company is registered in Germany and the legal representatives are actually some Turkish guys. I suspect it’s because they founded the company in Germany but live in Russia themselves and perhaps Germany requires legal representatives to be residents? Anyway the company’s been the main distributor since like 2002 so at the very least it’s still the same company it was 24 years ago.
Reminds me of stupid me after I received a ginormous family inheritance I went through a phase of buying every stupid little thing that I would’ve never bought before. It was sometime around the implosion of the John McAfee empire debacle I was vaguely aware that something was going awry with him & the company but I was lost in my own little world buying post-it notes at a Staples store.
At the checkout counter the employee brought my attention to a small display of heavily discounted McAfee antivirus software something-something for only $5 and all my conscious brain knew at the time was
“Wow, didn’t that used to cost $40-$75? and McAfee has been in the news lately. I have no idea what’s going on but yes I will pay $5 for this thing.” 🤦🏼♀️
It was completely useless and I doubt I ever took it out of the package before eventually throwing it away.
