../code/conceptPage.scroll id gzip name Gzip appeared 1992 tags binaryDataFormat website http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/ lab GNU Project isOpenSource true fileType binary wordRank 9973 quineRelay Gzip ubuntuPackage gzip wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip related c unix freebsd html rfc summary gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression. The program was created by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler as a free software replacement for the compress program used in early Unix systems, and intended for use by GNU (the "g" is from "GNU"). Version 0.1 was first publicly released on 31 October 1992, and version 1.0 followed in February 1993. pageId 12783 dailyPageViews 555 created 2001 backlinksCount 441 revisionCount 503 appeared 2016