Happy birthday Eugene Roshal!

On this day, March 10, 1972, Eugene Roshal (pronounced Eugene Roshal), the Russian creator of the RAR compression algorithm (RoshalARchiver) who gave us WinRAR, the popular archiving and compression program, was born for MS Windows in RAR format.

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In chronological order the creations of the developer:

The owner of the compression algorithm is his brother Alexander, because Eugenios, as he stated, did not have time to deal with software development and copyright at the same time.winRAR

In addition to its popularity with Windows users for its ease of use (later versions) it is well known as the first software to be given a free 40-day trial, the expiration of which does not affect its functionality!

Practically, the user can use it for personal use for life and this to the knowledge of the company as a response to piracy, and in fact with the purpose as it states, to protect users from using a pirated and possibly dangerous for them .

So let us wholeheartedly wish him happy and creative birthday!

Encouragement: do not remove the software because it is Russian :)

And for those who have not done so yet:
open the program, go to Help -> About and click on the points we show you: rar about

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Written by Lefteris

IEK Computer Applications, Networks and Office Automation Technician 2003

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