Er, Zip Hard disks keep getting bigger.
Programs keep getting bigger.
The result is that it can still take seemingly forever to download a large file or program from a Web site or Internet FTP site. Some files can be shrunk down to a tenth or less of their original size, then expanded when necessary back to their original bloat without so much as a nybble disturbed. I'm not making this up. There are a number of different programs available for shrinking files. The PKZip package includes programs for both compressing and decompressing files, and is not free.