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Tag results: File formats

Artifacting

How the JPEG file—and the lossy compression it allowed and encouraged—became the dominant way we shared digital photos on the internet.

Pretty Darn Fascinating

The story of the PDF, the portable document format that’s become one of the internet’s defining information formats. It’ll be with us after we’re long gone.

Sounding Board

After pissing off half the internet with our list on faded graphics formats, we’re doing the same thing with outdated audio formats. We’re fearing the worst.

Open To Conversion

From PCX to TGA to VRML, considering a number of image formats that the world forgot. Not every image standard is going to last, no matter how pretty it is.
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