Gotta love it how the Internet Archive managed to capture the state of the internet so perfectly, here the Netscape Bug Report Form from 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19990222143253/http://help.netscape.com/forms/bug-client.html

You would put your email address into the form in the ad frame, right?

Can you help me identify the compression format in the image? I know that this is a compressed binary but I don’t know which algorithm is being used. My main suspect was a raw LZMA stream but it doesn’t seem to produce file endings like this one, and my experiments with the Python lzma module have been unsuccessful. There are no recognizable text pieces in the data which rules out many other formats.

This data was preceded by a 16 bytes header: compressed size, uncompressed size, 8 bytes identifying the format. Elsewhere the latter was “gziphead”, and the data was in fact gzip-compressed. But here this field is all zeroes.

Edit: Compression factor is 49%, slightly better that gzip which was between 51 and 52%.

Marketing vs. Reality

No, they don’t have significantly higher user numbers in the Apple Store – no public stats there, but you can see it by the number of reviews already. They do have other apps that are way more popular, so I’m not sure why they chose to boast on this one. But even if you count everything together, these numbers don’t add up.