Just a little gift for the guy that single handedly made our sales go through the roof. ;) We are glad that you like it. Also thanks to Nick for the Idea!
Have you ever thought about a special or a honesty box ? I'm sure there's many like me that can't justify 29.99 for it when it works annoyingly for free but would be happy to pay something for the service over the years
@@lukem9962 @Carbon cricket FX Thank you. It's very kind of you to be willing to give us something for the service over the years. Please just get in contact with us, and we may be able to give you a discount so that you do not have to pay the full 29,99. Just write us an email. Of course we do not want to make too much noise about the discount here on LGR´s Channel, but since you asked so nicely, we wanted to reply to your comment!
Wow! Didn't know how nostalgic sounds the floppy disk reading noise!. I haven't heard it in like... 22+ years or something!. It really transported my mind to the 90s!. So cool times!.
Absolutely amazing that they still had blank floppies around somewhere + a computer to write them; that made somebody's day being able to make that for you.
There is a very specific sub-generation for whom this is insanely awesome; I consider myself lucky to be in that sub-generation. Awesome my fellow NC dude!
The only thing left now is for Clint to finish up this saga & show us him installing & registering WinRAR 2.0 on Windows 95, Windows 3.1, Windows 3.0, and (just for the hell of it) see what happens if he was to try installing it on Windows 1 & 2! This rabbit hole needs to go full Alice, at this point.
I love how the copyright is 2002, because they changed the name of the company from rarsoft to rarlabs, after the passing of Ron Dwight, the father of winrar..
That's awesome! Maybe he saw that the key doesn't work with winrar 2.0 and you do use it in window95, so he might as well give you the physical copy to activate it?
just because of this, I am now dedicating my entire life to winrar and I will not use anything BUT winrar on my computer jokes aside, I've been using it for a long while, really amazing how they went out of their way to do something like that, perhaps I'll even buy my own copy
To this day I still have the free copy of win rar on my pc, I still have yet to register it though but eh I don't know if I would or not or just find a code somewhere.
honestly, the people may be nice but that doesn't change the fact that winrar corrupts files and iirc doesn't let anyone else create rar files with their own software
Nicely spottet. Pretty fun to think they still have hardware to do this, when you cant buy floppies or dot-matrix printers as a consumer for the last 10 years
Thank you to Nick for being his authentic self to pull this off! He is a sharp dude and likes to have some fun, which I hope everyone can find in their day job. And thanks to Clint for the video recognition! We appreciate it!
@@MrlspPrt Sony was the last manufacturer of the 3.5" floppy, and they quit in 2011. Obviously other formats ceased production well before that. I can't find information on when the last drives were manufactured, but I know they've ceased production. Figures the inventor of the 3.5" disk would be the last to let it go.
Thank you both, I used floppy disks until high school between 2002-2005 (here in México, we have a technical format where you can get a degree as technician in "something"), but I only used them in my first university semester, after that I got a Sony USB and a Verbatim CD-RW, I noticed the format was dying when I changed my PC in 2008 and floppy disk was optional. It's too subtle that sometimes one can't see it, the girl I was dating bought a laptop that has no CD reader, neither SATA ports (only the new Nv... those pretty SSD drives).
I know a lot of the old companies will special manufacture them if you phone them and want to pay enough to make a large enough run of them. For reasons of NDA I can't say _who_ I was calling for, especially because the list of people who know about the project is short enough I will be narrowed in on, and saying who and why would reveal way more than they would like about upcoming things, but we called around to get quotes from a few companies to get them manufactured, but no one would do a small enough run of them for the needs we had. The tech and machinery is all laying around still in warehouses, they just want a lot of money to drag it out, and most people, heck, even most tech companies, could never afford it. Sure, the big ones like Google, Apple, Sony, etc could afford to do so as a joke, but the type of small quirky companies that would actually follow through on such a joke could likely never afford it. You can get the same thing done still for a lot of retro tech that is out of production BTW if you ever have dumb amounts of money to waste. Especially with audio tech, that shit regularly gets dragged back out for no good reason so a bunch of companies are getting the procedures in place to renew production when the demand returns.
I found it weird labelling them with modern dates so I can keep track of them (some of them with a labelmaker too) but to come that way from somewhere and not have a 90s label would be weird.
Its super cool to see an official floppy disk release in 2021, even if it is a one off. honestly, im gonna go buy a physical copy and license for winrar, youve inspired me to do so
@@existenceisrelative I would argue WinRAR resonates with more people than nuclear missile silos ;) Creating more nostalgia demand. We should try both on an auction, and see which sells highest ;)
@@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 I guess it's all down to how you define "precious". I went with "the most potential to end society." Rather than taking feelings into account.
@@existenceisrelative In that case.... You'd want to destroy those floppies instead of safekeeping them and calling them precious, no? If you are worried about nuclear war, make those missile silos ineffective ;)
I thought about getting winzip the other day when I realized a trial of it had already been installed on windows 10. 🤔 But this has caused me to reconsider. If I put 7zip on a disk I might label it WinRAR too (for personal use, of course). 😆
I bought a WinRAR licence ten years ago, now any zip file I download or create is converted into rar... I can't even create jar or iso files because those are converted...
You could say they're getting some attention for doing something like this, but who hasn't heard of WinRar by this point in time? This is just an awesome gesture from an amazing development team with a great sense of humor, and I dig that.
Just a little gift for the guy that single handedly made our sales go through the roof. ;) We are glad that you like it. Also thanks to Nick for the Idea!
Have you ever thought about a special or a honesty box ? I'm sure there's many like me that can't justify 29.99 for it when it works annoyingly for free but would be happy to pay something for the service over the years
I won't be happy until I recieve my WinRAR on a set of punch cards.
@@lukem9962 or even including registration numbers for the older versions for folks like Clint.
@@lukem9962 @Carbon cricket FX Thank you. It's very kind of you to be willing to give us something for the service over the years. Please just get in contact with us, and we may be able to give you a discount so that you do not have to pay the full 29,99. Just write us an email. Of course we do not want to make too much noise about the discount here on LGR´s Channel, but since you asked so nicely, we wanted to reply to your comment!
Wait, why does the official WinRAR RUclips channel only have 10 subscribers? Everyone, go subscribe
This is a bigger achievement than the gold google button
the honest-to-god _truth_
Nope, I think it's a bigger achievement than the RUclips diamond play button, not just the gold play button.
It belongs in a museum
Wtf is a google button?
@@reecerox2 I think he means play button
Wow! Didn't know how nostalgic sounds the floppy disk reading noise!. I haven't heard it in like... 22+ years or something!. It really transported my mind to the 90s!. So cool times!.
Loved this... when you were about to open it... I was chanting "Floppy Disk... Floppy Disk." 💾
This is straight up adorable :D How COOL is that! Congrats on your very own, unique copy of WinRAR
I have a feeling Cleverbridge will be getting a lot of requests for WinRAR floppies now based on the evidence that I really want one now
Absolutely amazing that they still had blank floppies around somewhere + a computer to write them; that made somebody's day being able to make that for you.
There is a very specific sub-generation for whom this is insanely awesome; I consider myself lucky to be in that sub-generation. Awesome my fellow NC dude!
I smiled during this whole vid, and was just as excited to see what was inside the package.
I would honestly buy WinRar on floppy disk and proudly put it on display like an achievement.
I had the exact same mouse as seen at 3:26 a long time ago! That was such a great mouse!
I can recall having a whole holder full of diskettes with midis on em..
That diskette case is the cutest thing ever
The only thing left now is for Clint to finish up this saga & show us him installing & registering WinRAR 2.0 on Windows 95, Windows 3.1, Windows 3.0, and (just for the hell of it) see what happens if he was to try installing it on Windows 1 & 2! This rabbit hole needs to go full Alice, at this point.
That floppy is now a valuable auction item
With all these WinRAR registrations the Universe is beginning to repair itself after 2019
Well, you do enjoy rare collectables, this would definitely qualify. Very nice of them.
I love how the copyright is 2002, because they changed the name of the company from rarsoft to rarlabs, after the passing of Ron Dwight, the father of winrar..
This will definitely inspire people to buy WinRar now
That’s so cool that they did that just for LGR!
You have made winrar more money this year than all their previous years combined lol
That's pretty awesome. What a neat company.
Hmm that Creative Labs 3D Blaster VLB in the upper left corner...
I assume this diskette will be worth a fortune in 20 years!
Little did he know it was actually anthrax spores
and so clint got the rarest winrar copy ever ^^
That's awesome! Maybe he saw that the key doesn't work with winrar 2.0 and you do use it in window95, so he might as well give you the physical copy to activate it?
I moved to 7-zip then on to various other linux zipping tools but this makes me want to register winrar for all the good times 😂😂.
Thisnis hilarious and awesome at the same time.
NGL, this is awesomeness to the nth degree!
Brilliant, hold on to that, it will be worth something one day :)
just because of this, I am now dedicating my entire life to winrar and I will not use anything BUT winrar on my computer
jokes aside, I've been using it for a long while, really amazing how they went out of their way to do something like that, perhaps I'll even buy my own copy
Make me smile.
Winrar you legends
Okay, I'm gonna buy a copy, I officially feel bad using the key file I've been using for like 10 years now that I got....... Somewhere.
It is done, I now have a license to it lol
Imagine if they sent it and the installer was within a rar file.
Awesome
Clever bridge pleas make this available for the common man!
3:51 EVERY COPY OF WINRAR 2.0 IS PERSONALIZED
I thought from the mosaic on the thumbnail it might have come from Japan.
Three blerbs in one week? Now you’re just crazy.
Fascinating
A surprise, to be sure.
Dammit WinRAR I want one 😀
Very wholesome
How cool is that? Perks come with registering.
That is awesome.
thats cool
what the... they still have floppies
that's a funny way to get winrar
So... does this code work on version 1? since 2 is where your previous experiment ended.
32-bit. Lemme get a 16-bit version.
Very cool 😎
Amazing
To this day I still have the free copy of win rar on my pc, I still have yet to register it though but eh I don't know if I would or not or just find a code somewhere.
What, they couldn't find 1.0? They should send you it on a RAMAC 305 hard drive.
2021: Rarlabs goes public after an inrush of registrations.
2022: Rarlabs becomes the world's first 2 trillion dollar company.
Buying stocks as I'm typing this comment.
Winrar to the moon!
someone get Elon Must to tweet about winrar
RAR to the moon!!! 🚀💎🙌🚀💎🙌🚀💎🙌
I mean Saudi Aramco did it first, and then Apple reached 2 trillions as well.
But the third one isn't as bad either.
Those guys from Rarlab were so nice to you that I'm seriously thinking about registering my winrar. What have you done to me
winrar was alway good to us. let's be good to them
You have to self-flagellate for every day you went over the trial period and say "I must not steal WinRAR" between the tears
Do it!
honestly, the people may be nice but that doesn't change the fact that winrar corrupts files and iirc doesn't let anyone else create rar files with their own software
@@subg9165 Corrupt files?
I see that very rare to happen, and what do you mean not letting you create rar file with their software?
Little did Clint know when he first started this journey just how long this saga would last...
The winRAR saga has been the tale of the decade. Just when you thought it was all over. Something more.
wow you watch LGR, aswell? Not only are you a pokemon RUclips legend, but you're a classic electronics nerd, too! This is truly amazing! :)
@@shamelfuller he's also a pervert
didnt know you watched lgr lol
To the White House
the worlds rarest registered copy of winRAR.
RARest
@@carlklitzke9455 WinRARest
All registered copies are the rarest
Probably the only
Classy move cleverbridge.
One could almost call it a .... clever move.
@@colinstu - I like the way you _abridged_ the OP.
:D
@@colinstu That joke might be a *bridge* too far.
I'm gonna burn this bridge: please stop making bad puns
@@colinstu glad someone said it lol
With all the people now going to heaven for registering their copy of WinRar, Clint is practically a saint at this point
Patron saint of WinRAR? I can dig it.
That's enough to make a man want to better his life
Is that an AoG reference?
Clint gets canonized. Dig it.
I haven't used winrar in years
I love it when vendors just play along with the gag like this. Shows they pay attention and actually care. Super cool. :)
Or maybe shows that they have so few customers to serve...
@@MetalTrabant Maybe both ;)
The note was even printed on a dot matrix printer. They really went out of their way for this
Nicely spottet. Pretty fun to think they still have hardware to do this, when you cant buy floppies or dot-matrix printers as a consumer for the last 10 years
Doesn't seem like it. It's just the Courier font and with line numbers.
@@lopwidth7343 you can though? Especially the printers.
@@Charky_Creations not in certain EU countries, at all. Nowhere to be found in electronic stores
@@lopwidth7343 the fact you can't buy something in a store doesn't mean you can't buy it.
Be careful Clint, by paying for the WinRAR you've started an ancient ritual which only the true Chosen One can complete.
Clearly, this is the start of the ARG leading into the plot of LGR: The Movie
Next thing you know, he's going to register mIRC.
as soon as you touch the physical media: "A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON"
@@BlackMageJawa The quest for the registration of WinRAR.
@@BlackMageJawa I'd watch it. I'd watch it in theaters, even.
I would order WinRAR just to have it delivered via floppy!
Thank you to Nick for being his authentic self to pull this off! He is a sharp dude and likes to have some fun, which I hope everyone can find in their day job. And thanks to Clint for the video recognition! We appreciate it!
CEO of Cleverbrige :)
Seeing a floppy disk with a copyright date of 2021 just boggles the mind a bit. I love that this exists!
Are they still making floppy disks?
I'm serious about this.
@@MrlspPrt Sony was the last manufacturer of the 3.5" floppy, and they quit in 2011. Obviously other formats ceased production well before that. I can't find information on when the last drives were manufactured, but I know they've ceased production.
Figures the inventor of the 3.5" disk would be the last to let it go.
Thank you both, I used floppy disks until high school between 2002-2005 (here in México, we have a technical format where you can get a degree as technician in "something"), but I only used them in my first university semester, after that I got a Sony USB and a Verbatim CD-RW, I noticed the format was dying when I changed my PC in 2008 and floppy disk was optional.
It's too subtle that sometimes one can't see it, the girl I was dating bought a laptop that has no CD reader, neither SATA ports (only the new Nv... those pretty SSD drives).
I know a lot of the old companies will special manufacture them if you phone them and want to pay enough to make a large enough run of them. For reasons of NDA I can't say _who_ I was calling for, especially because the list of people who know about the project is short enough I will be narrowed in on, and saying who and why would reveal way more than they would like about upcoming things, but we called around to get quotes from a few companies to get them manufactured, but no one would do a small enough run of them for the needs we had.
The tech and machinery is all laying around still in warehouses, they just want a lot of money to drag it out, and most people, heck, even most tech companies, could never afford it. Sure, the big ones like Google, Apple, Sony, etc could afford to do so as a joke, but the type of small quirky companies that would actually follow through on such a joke could likely never afford it.
You can get the same thing done still for a lot of retro tech that is out of production BTW if you ever have dumb amounts of money to waste. Especially with audio tech, that shit regularly gets dragged back out for no good reason so a bunch of companies are getting the procedures in place to renew production when the demand returns.
I found it weird labelling them with modern dates so I can keep track of them (some of them with a labelmaker too) but to come that way from somewhere and not have a 90s label would be weird.
Its super cool to see an official floppy disk release in 2021, even if it is a one off. honestly, im gonna go buy a physical copy and license for winrar, youve inspired me to do so
When u pay for WinRAR and get so praised and rewarded lmao
They sure pay back.
Yeah if only i knew back in 98 or whenever i started using it
Those 3 people that disliked the video (so far) work for Winzip.
76 dislikes so far. There cannot be that many people using WinZip. ARJ-fans, maybe? PKZIP? I don't think 7zip-users care either way. :)
@@antisoda I use 7-zip and I love this video.
HECK YEAH 2021 the Year of WinRAR let's make this happen!
Whatever next, Winzip?
They should really sell a limited number of these.
They do when you register your winrar :p
@@blackhawk65589 LOL indeed!
@@blackhawk65589 WHERE?
@@rallyscoot ebay
Never thought I’d see the day that winrar did a RUclips collab
"Thank you for being our first customer!"
Haha
That was lovely, what a great guy/company. Bravo Cleverbridge
That's gonna be the most precious floppy disk known to mankind, since it's one-of-a-kind
i think the floppies that _still_ run the nuclear missile launch programs top it. Even though they're less unique.
@@existenceisrelative I would argue WinRAR resonates with more people than nuclear missile silos ;) Creating more nostalgia demand.
We should try both on an auction, and see which sells highest ;)
@@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 alright while you nerds pine over nostalgia im gonna hold the world hostage
@@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 I guess it's all down to how you define "precious". I went with "the most potential to end society." Rather than taking feelings into account.
@@existenceisrelative In that case.... You'd want to destroy those floppies instead of safekeeping them and calling them precious, no? If you are worried about nuclear war, make those missile silos ineffective ;)
Now it's time for WinZip and WinAce to step up to the challenge.
I thought about getting winzip the other day when I realized a trial of it had already been installed on windows 10. 🤔 But this has caused me to reconsider. If I put 7zip on a disk I might label it WinRAR too (for personal use, of course). 😆
OMG, WinAce is a name I haven't read or even thought of in a really long time!
Go all the way! Register PKUnzip!
@@CptJistuce Now THAT is a program i havent heard of in a looooong time. wow...
@@CptJistuce ha.
Today I learned that everybody who neglected registering WinRAR missed out on a multi-month journey.
"Every copy of WinRAR is personalised".
More companies should realize the impact stupid little things like this have. That little floppy probably sold a couple hundred registrations...
I don’t know how this saga started, but the floppy is adorable
Clint buying a licence just because he wanted to know what happens... and he bought a physical copy.
That made me smile, that's pretty cool.
Next Video: I recieved a 5 inch floppy containing the WinRAR source code!
Video after that: "Check out this 8-inch floppy with a PDP-11 version of WinRAR!"
The disk holder still has that gunk in the inside. I can't unsee it.
Yeah it's some kind of old glue that's gone yellow, argh
@@LGRBlerbs It's some kind of glue. Mine has it too.
@@LGRBlerbs Maybe some kind of yellow-brown neoprene based adhesive?
@@LGRBlerbs If you cant get rid of it, paint it!
@@LGRBlerbs have you tried a Q tip with isopropyl alcohol to simply dissolve the glue?
You've unleashed an ancient curse. Now WinRar will never leave you alone
I bought a WinRAR licence ten years ago, now any zip file I download or create is converted into rar... I can't even create jar or iso files because those are converted...
@@MrlspPrt Winrar is Yandere
Clint's fan base holds no bounds. It expands like the universe itself.
A+ effort.
This so awsome, No wonder they're called Cleverbridge.
Clint paid for WinRAR, he's going to use the whole WinRAR!
Oh. It looks like magic does still exist in this world.
You could say they're getting some attention for doing something like this, but who hasn't heard of WinRar by this point in time? This is just an awesome gesture from an amazing development team with a great sense of humor, and I dig that.
Bleedings and Blelcome to you as well.
Blank you...
Blanks!
Blinblar
Bluck you
I registered WinRAR years ago. At the time I had a feeling I was the only one. :D
Can you scan the label? Hide the serial of course. Would be neat to make your own. :)
I'm genuinely considering registering WinRAR just because this neat thing they did.
nice! they sent you a 3D printed save icon!
lol
This is the most wholesome follow up in all of history. ^_^
Lgr receives customer appreciation reward for being the first person to register product
Just bought a physical copy. They deserve it after all these years.