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Huh, I had always assumed the etymology was related to "zipper," as in "all my clothes fit in my bag once I zipped it."
by TechBro8615 3y ago
Huh, I had always assumed the etymology was related to "zipper," as in "all my clothes fit in my bag once I zipped it."
- jcrawfordor 3y agoI think the zipper iconography was used by pretty early versions of pkzip, so it was definitely on the mind of the format's creator. Of course the more common implementation WinZip (these days from Corel but I assume it was acquired, not sure of the history) went the C-clamp route, which I think it shared with WinRar.