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korzun on July 15, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: 3-character filename extensions

Article is from 2010. For the same reason you want shorter domain names, people want shorter extensions.

Decade later you can see that there a greater amount of 4+ characters extensions.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats

lucb1e on July 15, 2014 [–]

> For the same reason you want shorter domain names

Good one, hadn't thought of the analogy to .commercial, .network and .organization yet (.com, .net and .org, incase anyone doesn't get it). It's 2014, let's use the whole name already!

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