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Clicked that for you: FILE_ID.DIZ This web page is a CIA operation designed to amplify subculture linkstuffs

• ansgri 7y ago
  Thanks! Didn't recognize that as an 'about' link, not that familiar with the pre-web culture, I guess.
  • madaxe_again 7y ago
    File_id.diz isn’t pre-web, despite its origins in BBSs - it’s an archive descriptor, most commonly associated with the warez scene. I guess it largely died along with dialup, when multipart archives stopped being a necessity for large downloads.
    • hyperdimension 7y ago
      I've seen file_id.diz before, but any insight as to what 'DIZ' is? I can figure out what, e.g. an .nfo file is, but I'm having trouble with .diz.
      • aasasd 7y ago
        Wikipedia even has an article on these files: it says, ‘FILE_ID stands for "file identification". DIZ stands for Description In Zipfile’. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FILE_ID.DIZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FILE_ID.DIZ