Thread Hijack: A little while ago there was a link on HN to a visual explanation of text compression, but I do not remember the compression format. It was the first time I ever understood how text compression works. There was a paragraph of text and the author stepped through the compression of the paragraph with an accompanying depiction of the original paragraph. Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was the first time I ever really understood text compression and I have been looking for it ever since. It was just text, no D3 and no flash, just plain old ascii.