ZI Pping Archives Across Multiple Floppy Disks

Field	Archiving, Backups, Warez
Went Obsolete	The introduction of consumer CD burners, deprecation of .INI configuration files
Made Obsolete By	Cost-effective media with sufficient capacity
Knowledge Assumed	Common CLI usage, Sufficient disks on hand, understanding of application configuration,
When useful	Moving “large” data sets between machines, the early warez scene, hard disk space management

Remember when High Capacity meant 1.44MB? And then you wanted to move 6MB from your lab computer to your home machine? You likely had a case of floppies in your bag, one of which had the indispensable ZIP, ARC, or RAR application on it. Plop in that first disk and fire up the command line help to get your switches right as you started to ZIP up those files.

Same skill set still used in UseNet and for spanning multiple CDs ? / DVDs ? / e-mails. Not at all obsolete.
Same skill set also used as the basis for file transfer systems that allow retry when carrier failure is anticipated - say for transferring large files over a GPRS connection.