28 years later, Windows finally supports RAR files

It’s 1999, and my friends and I are surfing warez sites using Internet Explorer on our 98SE gaming rig. Finally we push past the scams and porn to find a list of files on an FTP server, labeled “.rar, .r00, .r01, r.02…” But what the hell are these?
“Oh, it’s segmented. You have to download this program to expand those, it’s called WinRAR. Way better than WinZip.”
“Do we have to pay for it?”
“No… but if you’re as cheap as I think you are, it’ll keep bugging you to for a quarter of a century until, in the grim da

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