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Wow, that is very comprehensive. I looked up some obscure stuff from the 80s and it's there. Not just an unhelpful stub either, it has actual significant useful information.

Funny how an old solution from CP/M (3 letter filename extension) has persisted until now.

> the most permanent thing is a temporary hack

What jams me up is the staggering number of programmers who believe the file extension somehow dictates the content-type

Followed closely by how Microsoft made an option to hide the extensions, which went so poorly that "totally-safe.docx.exe" became a compromise vector

What a mess

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