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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

For me zip was mainly two things:

  • I put all my things on it that I wanted to use on a shared computer. At the time that included downloads from the internet which I didn’t have access to directly from my own computer.
  • Hot fix for running out of hard disk. Zip was not far off from the sizes hard disks were in the early-mid 90ies. 100 MB of extra room was big and attaching another hard disk wasn’t necessarily an option.

I’m not sure about them “dominating” though. Virtually none of my friends had one.