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I'm pretty sure both AOL and cellular phones pre-date StuffIt. Not that WinRAR or 7zip would have helped as I don't believe either of them ever supported SIT archives.

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Stuffit was created in 1987 by Raymond Lau - compression was useful in the days of 800 KB / 1.44 MB floppies.

AOL as a company with the name "AOL" started in 1991, and they started as Quantum Computer in 1989.

Cell phones started in the 1970s, so they are older, but not AOL.

Cellphones were for the Uber rich. Us pleebs had pagers.

Even pagers were a luxury, unless you were a doctor or a drug dealer or something like that.

Cell phone technology existed prior but Cingular Wireless (the first cell carrier in my area) didn’t exist until 2000.

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