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jimmyjams
Jan 10, 2001


King Kong of Megadongs
Gobblin' them mega schlongs
Makin' sure they mega long
Stroke' 'em if they mega strong
weed.man

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jimmyjams
Jan 10, 2001


King Kong of Megadongs
Gobblin' them mega schlongs
Makin' sure they mega long
Stroke' 'em if they mega strong
piss.jar

VomitOnLino
Jun 13, 2005

Sometimes I get lost.
Is it bad that I recognized most of the game-related extensions?

.DIZ

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
im no computer guy (too :cool:) but I’m beginning to think that many of these extensions arent even real. :crossarms:

power botton
Nov 2, 2011

.torrent for all your linux ISOs

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

I think .torrent is the longest extension I use on a regular basis. I use .SLDPRT every day, but that's one less character.

What is the longest file extension you ever saw?

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
.lrplugin just the other day

TimWinter
Mar 30, 2015

https://timsthebomb.com
It turns out the muppets are one to one equivalents to file extensions.

Mr. Johnson is a .conf file:

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

Sagebrush posted:

I think .torrent is the longest extension I use on a regular basis. I use .SLDPRT every day, but that's one less character.

What is the longest file extension you ever saw?

why are you regularly upgrading your linux

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

have you guys ever wondered why all file extensions are exactly 3 characters? why is thjat

VomitOnLino
Jun 13, 2005

Sometimes I get lost.

fart simpson posted:

have you guys ever wondered why all file extensions are exactly 3 characters? why is thjat

In case you aren't trolling: DOS and other FAT based file-systems only had enough space for a so called short filename.
That meant 8.3 characters. 8 for the filename and 3 for the extension. Modern OS don't have that limitation and thus we got .torrent and .docx and poo poo.

Basically because FAT YOSPOS

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

but it’s not dos anymore, how come file extensions haven’t caught up?

VomitOnLino
Jun 13, 2005

Sometimes I get lost.

fart simpson posted:

but it’s not dos anymore, how come file extensions haven’t caught up?

Same reason your mom hasn't caught up with my coming and then leaving without paying... every time

pram
Jun 10, 2001
clearly files should use the reverse dns notation for maximum verbosity

com.somethingawful.forums.yospos.funny_images.thread_12.previous_deleted_due_to_fischmech_stymie_argument.vaporwave.old_computer.apng

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

VomitOnLino posted:

Same reason your mom hasn't caught up with my coming and then leaving without paying... every time

what reason is that?

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

Bored Online
May 25, 2009

We don't need Rome telling us what to do.

Satellit3
Oct 21, 2008

Raluek posted:

.final.v2.old

Satellit3
Oct 21, 2008

fart simpson posted:

what reason is that?

lol

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

President Beep posted:

i had some dude send me a “.zib” the other day, and i was like “wtf is this? i cant open this poo poo!” turns out it’s an old habit for when spam filters flag .zip attachments and it’s up to the recipient to change the B to a P.


thats my file extension story. hope you all really liked it.

ebay used to be blocked as a consequence of its URLs being an ISAPI .dll with query string parameters attached

CRIP EATIN BREAD
Jun 24, 2002

Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T



Soiled Meat
ISAPI is the most microsoft name

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD
.xlsx for being fun to say five times fast

.exe.uk for original unpatched game files

I also like legacy file extensions that refer to previous names of the file format or program.
I'm sure there's more but I can only think of .swf at the moment

Lime
Jul 20, 2004

.ps1 for powershell scripts is pretty good

obviously .ps was already taken so gently caress it just tack the version number on the end; powershell v2 would use .ps2, etc. microsoft eventually realized that versioning with file extensions is dumb and just added a #requires statement to the language itself, and now we are up to powershell v6 and still writing .ps1 files

George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.
.jpg because its actually .gif

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

George posted:

.jpg because its actually .gif

i'm.jpg

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

pick your favorite: .htm or .html

the yeti
Mar 29, 2008

memento disco



.mmddyy

(seen at my last job just as often as .old thanks to one guy)

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill
.pif

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
.rear end or .S

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

fart simpson posted:

why are you regularly upgrading your linux

of course i would never do such a thing. i am downloading very large research files like 10 billion digits of pi, particle traces from supercolliders, etc

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
doom2.wad

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

Sagebrush posted:

of course i would never do such a thing. i am downloading very large research files like 10 billion digits of pi, particle traces from supercolliders, etc

i made quite the :aaa: face when i learned that "with 40 digits of pi you could calculate the circumference of the visible universe to plus or minus the diameter of a hydrogen atom"

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Sagebrush posted:

I think .torrent is the longest extension I use on a regular basis. I use .SLDPRT every day, but that's one less character.

What is the longest file extension you ever saw?

.xcworkspace

suffix
Jul 27, 2013

Wheeee!

Bloody posted:

pick your favorite: .htm or .html

oh i like any kind of Microsoft HTML Document

mystes
May 31, 2006

suffix posted:

oh i like any kind of Microsoft HTML Document
Yeah, .hta is the best.

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

shootmy.wad

TimWinter
Mar 30, 2015

https://timsthebomb.com

the yeti posted:

.mmddyy

(seen at my last job just as often as .old thanks to one guy)

what sort of monster doesn't backup his files as .yymmdd

Convoolio
Oct 31, 2005

.arj

url
Apr 23, 2007

internet gnuru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7AraMx18T0

.swf was always meant to be the extension to rule them all

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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

when the first ipad came out a guy i knew bought two of them on day one bc he was a flash developer and he was like "mailing companies an ipad with my portfolio on it will be an incredible way to show off my interactive work!!"

i asked him -- didn't steve jobs say that he doesn't like flash? and there is no flash on ios?

and he said "well yeah right now, sure, but adobe's working on it, it's way too popular for apple to just ignore it forever"

i wonder how he's doing

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