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I'm pretty sure both AOL and cellular phones pre-date StuffIt. Not that WinRAR or 7zip would have helped as I don't believe either of them ever supported SIT ar

I'm pretty sure both AOL and cellular phones pre-date StuffIt. Not that WinRAR or 7zip would have helped as I don't believe either of them ever supported SIT archives.

nemo 3y ago
Stuffit was created in 1987 by Raymond Lau - compression was useful in the days of 800 KB / 1.44 MB floppies. AOL as a company with the name "AOL" started in 1991, and they started as Quantum Computer in 1989. Cell phones started in the 1970s, so they are older, but not AOL.
- reactordev 3y ago
  Cellphones were for the Uber rich. Us pleebs had pagers.
  - philwelch 3y ago
    Even pagers were a luxury, unless you were a doctor or a drug dealer or something like that.
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reactordev 3y ago
Cell phone technology existed prior but Cingular Wireless (the first cell carrier in my area) didn’t exist until 2000.