If you used a Mac back in the 90's, then you remember that among Mac users, nobody ever used ZIP format for compressing files.  Everybody used SIT files instead and some used HQX, BIN or CPT files, but not a single Mac user zipped their files.  The reason is simple: ZIP files are not compatible with Mac resource forks (old Mac files before Mac OS X) and zipping an old Mac file (such as a Mac OS 9 application program) would destroy...

Back in 1996, Stuffit introduced DropSegment which worked much like DropStuff (compression aoo) and StuffIt Expander (decompression app). Dropping a StuffIt archive (a single file compressed as .sit file) on DropSegment enabled the user to make a multi-segment, self-joining, self-extracting archive, which was useful for copying huge archives to floppy disks. Segmenting files has not gone away despite increases to storage,...