Windows 11 adds native support for rar, 7-zip, gz, and other archive formats (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Windows 11 adds native support for rar, 7-zip, gz, and other archive formats  —  It's 1999, and my friends and I are surfing warez sites using Internet Explorer on our 98SE gaming rig.  Finally we push past the scams and porn to find a list of files on an FTP server, labeled “.rar, .r00, .r01, r.02...” But what the hell are these?