# The Humble History of 7Zip

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- **Канал:** Coding with Lewis
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhbOscdU6IY
- **Дата:** 23.04.2026
- **Длительность:** 1:23
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- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/50160

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### Segment 1 (00:00 - 01:00) []

This iconic software has been free for 25 years and it was only built by one person. Igor Pavlov released 7-Zip in 1999 from Russia. He created his own compression algorithm called LZMA — and at the time it beat everything else on compression ratio, smaller files, and open source. The. 7z format can compress files 30 to 70% better than. zip depending on what data it is. The algorithm was so good that other projects adopted LZMA as their compression back-end. The Linux kernel supports it, Android firmware images support it. Game installers use it. It's honestly as universal at this point. And while WinRAR became a meme because of the please buy a license pop-up that nobody clicked, 7-Zip was free from day one. The UI looks like it was designed in 1999 because it probably was. — Uh the file manager still looks like Windows XP, but I mean again, nobody cares. It opens everything, compresses fast, and costs nothing. What is there to complain about? In fact, if your UI doesn't look like this, I just don't even trust it. One developer in Russia built a compression tool that outperforms commercial alternatives on file size, gave it away, and maintained it for over a quarter century. And that's when sometimes the best software is the one that never tries to sell you anything. Follow for more.