LZ77 and LZ78 are two data compression algorithms that are part of the Lempel-Ziv family of algorithms, which were developed by Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv in the late 1970s. They both utilize dictionary-based approaches to compress data, but they do so using different techniques. ### LZ77 **LZ77** was proposed in 1977 and is also known as the "dictionary" or "sliding window" method.
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