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Re:JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file contai... by romed on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @01:30AM (#18343562)
Yes, it is. I feel like this hack is a wry nod to the old warez scene where multipart archives within archives were, for some reason, de rigueur.
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Re:JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file contai... by oorza on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @01:53AM (#18343617)
No way to resume BBS and later FTP uploads back in the day.
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Re:JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file contai... by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @09:16AM (#18345365)
I thought it was assumed that the files, once downloaded, would be distributed locally on floppies. The sub-archives were usually 1.44MB to fit on a 3.5".

When did resumable BBS download protocols become a thing? ZMODEM at least was widely used by the early '90s.

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