WinRAR dropped in 1995 and quickly became the go-to for cracking open .rar and .zip files back when downloading a game mod or a batch of “high-res” wallpapers took all night. It was fast, handled huge files better than most, and let you split archives across floppy disks like it was no big deal. Version 2.0 in 1996 sped things up and added more format support, 3.0 in 2002 gave us better compression and security, and 5.0 in 2013 finally upped the RAR format to handle even bigger files with stronger encryption. And yeah—technically the trial was only 40 days, but almost everyone ran “expired” WinRAR for years without paying, making that nag screen one of the most ignored pop-ups in history.