Yes. That splitting files was especially useful because emails used to have attachment size limits.
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Krudler@lemmy.world 11 months agoThe reason WinRAR was useful to me allllllll those years ago was for one thing and one thing only: You could split an archive into chunks. So mostly I found that it was good for getting my warez in 1.44MB chunks.
PoliteGhost@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Krudler@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No no no no
It was primarily used to post to USENET.
Back in the day, every byte of data was precious and bandwidth was insanely limited, nobody would ever email an attachment for that… which would end up doubling in size as it went through the pipes.
marx2k@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.com 11 months ago
Anon: hey Krudler, do you have a cracked copy of GTA3
Krudler: say no more, friend
Sends 350 floppy disks with the cracked game