Richard Mitton (via Hacker News): Deflate was invented by Phil Katz back in 1993, and forms the basis of the ZIP file format, the zlib library, gzip, PNGs, and probably a whole bunch of other stuff. At the time it was pretty cutting-edge.[…]So we have two compression algorithms. LZSS is reliant on finding previous data … Continue reading The Elegance of Deflate