Our A-Z will help you understand the IT terms that are now being used every day in the modern day world
The Jargon Buster explains technical and computing terms with which you might not be familiar.
Zip - refers to compressing files (making them take up less memory) so making them quicker to send over the internet. There are various software tools available for 'zipping and 'unzipping' files including PKZip and Winzip (for PC) and ZipIt (for Mac). Zipped files usually have the file extension .zip.