The reason WinRAR was useful to me allllllll those years ago was for one thing and one thing only: You could split an archive into chunks. So mostly I found that it was good for getting my warez in 1.44MB chunks.
Back in the day, every byte of data was precious and bandwidth was insanely limited, nobody would ever email an attachment for that.
Due to some of the technical details about how email works, that would end up just bloating the file size and it would be the literally most inefficient way possible to send large blobs of data.
The reason WinRAR was useful to me allllllll those years ago was for one thing and one thing only: You could split an archive into chunks. So mostly I found that it was good for getting my warez in 1.44MB chunks.
Anon: hey Krudler, do you have a cracked copy of GTA3
Krudler: say no more, friend
Sends 350 floppy disks with the cracked game
Yes. That splitting files was especially useful because emails used to have attachment size limits.
No no no no
It was primarily used to post to USENET.
Back in the day, every byte of data was precious and bandwidth was insanely limited, nobody would ever email an attachment for that.
Due to some of the technical details about how email works, that would end up just bloating the file size and it would be the literally most inefficient way possible to send large blobs of data.
https://www.tecmint.com/split-large-tar-into-multiple-files-of-certain-size/