Deflated
hip-hop
documentary
The story of Phil Katz, the programmer who created PKZIP and the .ZIP file format — one of the most ubiquitous file formats in computing history. Despite his creation being used by billions of people daily (.zip, .jar, .docx, .apk are all ZIP under the hood), Katz died alone at age 37 in Room 566 of a Milwaukee motel, surrounded by empty liquor bottles.
