> Without these algorithms, we’d likely be mailing large data files on discs instead of sending them across the Internet with a click, buying our music on CDs i

> Without these algorithms, we’d likely be mailing large data files on discs instead of sending them across the Internet with a click, buying our music on CDs instead of streaming it, and looking at Facebook feeds that don’t have bouncing animated images. I really hate these hyperbolic statements. It makes it seem like if it wasn't for Ziv and Lempel no one would have figured out how to do lossless compression, which is just utterly ridiculous.