![]() A university student ZIPs a homework assignment and related files and sends it to their instructor or professor in a classroom or online degree program.An attorney or lawyer for a law firm creates a ZIP file containing a set of related legal documents such as a will, trust, claim, or other estate planning documents.A real estate agent scans and ZIPs a sales contract and sends it to a mortgage broker for a home loan when buying a home.A car insurance agent ZIPs and emails information related to a person's health insurance, homeowner's insurance, auto insurance, or life insurance policy.Here are some specified real-world examples of actual usage of ZIP files: ZIP files are common across a variety of business areas, including industries ranging from medical, insurance, legal, mortgage, banking and financial, scientific, equities and trading, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and education industries. ![]() ZIP files are commonly found as both Gmail attachments and Google Drive, as well as other cloud-based storage systems such as Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive. ![]() Today, the ZIP file format is widely supported, with billions of such files in circulation. The receiver of a a ZIP file would then use a decompression program to extract, or "unzip," the file contents onto a user's computer. It also allowed for multiple files and folders to be grouped together ("zipped") and transferred as a single ZIP file. Using ZIP compression often saved minutes or even hours off of file transfers. ![]() At that time, file transfer speeds were much slower than today. The ZIP file format dates to the late 1980s when it received heavy use in pre-internet-era Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes). The ZIP file format is very popular for efficiently storing and transferring groups of files in a variety of business and personal applications. ZIP files group together one or more files into a single file, called an archive, while at the same time compressing them and making them smaller. ![]()
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