And at the heart of that format sits a small, stubborn company called Rarlab. No campus. No IPO. No drama.
This is the story of how two engineers from a small town built an accidental empire on shareware, stubbornness, and one of the most efficient compression algorithms ever written. The year is 1993. The internet is still a dial-up screech. Hard drives are measured in megabytes. In Chelyabinsk, Russia—a city better known for tanks and heavy industry—a software engineer named Eugene Roshal begins writing a file archiver.
Just a nag screen. And 40 billion clicks of “Close.” Rarlab’s official site: www.rarlab.com WinRAR: Still compressing after all these years.
And at the heart of that format sits a small, stubborn company called Rarlab. No campus. No IPO. No drama.
This is the story of how two engineers from a small town built an accidental empire on shareware, stubbornness, and one of the most efficient compression algorithms ever written. The year is 1993. The internet is still a dial-up screech. Hard drives are measured in megabytes. In Chelyabinsk, Russia—a city better known for tanks and heavy industry—a software engineer named Eugene Roshal begins writing a file archiver. rarlab
Just a nag screen. And 40 billion clicks of “Close.” Rarlab’s official site: www.rarlab.com WinRAR: Still compressing after all these years. And at the heart of that format sits