I have a collection of files from the late ´90s and early ´00s. Many of them are .JPG, .MP3, .WAV, instead of .jpg, .mp3, and .wav. Why was that the norm at the time? I usually just change the extension myself.
I have a collection of files from the late ´90s and early ´00s. Many of them are .JPG, .MP3, .WAV, instead of .jpg, .mp3, and .wav. Why was that the norm at the time? I usually just change the extension myself.
Because DOS/early Windows had a filesystem that had very limited filenames. You had eight characters for the actual filename and three for the file extension. They were stored and displayed in all caps, but matching was always case insensitive.
That explains both the upper case and the three character extension limit.