[Latest] How old is ZIP_(file

Living Person

ZIP_(file_format)
is

As of April 16, 2026

37 years old
approximately!

Date of Birth

(1989 ) is

Snake
Year

* Calculated from Wikipedia data.
Accuracy is not guaranteed.

approx. 499.7 years old

approx. 155.2 years old

approx. 60.8 years old

approx. 19.9 years old

approx. 3.2 years old

approx. 1.3 years old

* Calculated based on each planet's orbital period.

ZIP file format
Filename extension	`.zip`, `.zipx`, `.z01`, `.zx01`
Internet media type	`application/zip` `application/x-zip-compressed`
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)	com.pkware.zip-archive
Magic number	none `PK\x03\x04` `PK\x05\x06` (empty) `PK\x07\x08` (spanned)
Developed by	PKWARE, Inc.
Initial release	14 February 1989; 37 years ago (1989-02-14)
Latest release	6.3.10 1 November 2022; 3 years ago (2022-11-01)
Type of format	Data compression
Extended to	JAR, .ipa, .apk (EAR, RAR (Java), WAR) Office Open XML (Microsoft) Open Packaging Conventions OpenDocument (ODF) XPI (Mozilla extensions) dotLottie .pptx (Power Point)
Standard	APPNOTE from PKWARE ISO/IEC 21320-1:2015 (a subset of ZIP file format 6.3.3)
Open format?	Yes