The Technofile Web site has moved. The Syracuse Newspapers Except for texts, most of the files you download from an Internet site are compressed into archives.
ZIPs are files that hold other files.
They are containers, in other words. The files inside a ZIP are squeezed to about half their normal size during compression and returned to normal in expansion. But the times are a-changing. Luckily, there are many alternatives. I like three of them.