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While his software was on almost every computer in the world, Phil Katz's personal life was in a downward spiral.

Today, the format is so ubiquitous that it is natively built into Windows File Explorer , allowing users to "Zip" and "Unzip" folders with a single right-click. Zip and unzip files - Microsoft Support Mypc.zip

: Instead of giving up, Katz settled the suit and decided to create a brand-new format that was completely independent of ARC. He named it ZIP (suggested by his friend Robert Mahoney to imply speed) and released PKZIP 1.0 in 1989. 2. The Rise of the ZIP Standard While his software was on almost every computer

In the mid-1980s, the standard for file compression was the format, created by a company called System Enhancement Associates (SEA). He named it ZIP (suggested by his friend

: Phil Katz , a talented programmer, felt ARC was too slow. He wrote his own version, PKARC , which was significantly faster because it was written in assembly language.