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How is this different from .com, which was also a common file extension?

by brookst 4y ago

ComputerGuru 4y ago
There was no omnibar five decades ago.
- deleted 4y ago
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toast0 4y ago
Auto linkifying wasn't happening in the olden times. And there was a shortage of octets for tlds in those days, so .com was all that could be spared.
pavel_lishin 4y ago
.com file weren't typically emailed to people, and there was no expectation that clicking on them would do something harmless like display some files or a document.
gmuslera 4y ago
.exe is a more recently used file extension, luckily there isn't (yet) any TLD with that. Belize have .bz (and the domain tar.bz exists), but both the extension used is usually .bz2, and is not so commonly used for transmitting files, .gz would had more impact. But in the end, is about applications, that may be showing/using 2 different things, URLs and filenames, with different namespaces and use cases, in a pretty similar way.
- Aardwolf 4y ago
  Also cute is the .sh domain, for when you want to curl your shell scripts
brudgers 4y ago
When .com became a common top level domain, search tools did not commingle the file:// and http:// http:// protocols. This was probably for two reasons. Bandwidth was precious. Searching file systems was slow. Maybe business ethics played a role as well. Maybe not.
Jasper_ 4y ago
It was common to see viruses spread by someone sending an executable attachment called "amazon.com" or similar and have people click the link to open it. Most email providers now flat out strip attachments with .com extensions.
pornel 4y ago
It's not a commonly used extension, and it's a dangerous file type, so users shouldn't be opening received .com files either way. OTOH .zip is quite common and has legitimate uses.
- xigoi 4y ago
  .zip files can also be dangerous. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb
flangola7 4y ago
I have never seen a .com file, do you mean html?
- hawski 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.COM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.COM

How is this different from .com, which was also a common file extension?

ComputerGuru 4y ago

There was no omnibar five decades ago.

deleted 4y ago
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toast0 4y ago

Auto linkifying wasn't happening in the olden times. And there was a shortage of octets for tlds in those days, so .com was all that could be spared.

pavel_lishin 4y ago

.com file weren't typically emailed to people, and there was no expectation that clicking on them would do something harmless like display some files or a document.

gmuslera 4y ago

.exe is a more recently used file extension, luckily there isn't (yet) any TLD with that. Belize have .bz (and the domain tar.bz exists), but both the extension used is usually .bz2, and is not so commonly used for transmitting files, .gz would had more impact. But in the end, is about applications, that may be showing/using 2 different things, URLs and filenames, with different namespaces and use cases, in a pretty similar way.

Aardwolf 4y ago
Also cute is the .sh domain, for when you want to curl your shell scripts

brudgers 4y ago

When .com became a common top level domain, search tools did not commingle the file:// and http:// http:// protocols. This was probably for two reasons. Bandwidth was precious. Searching file systems was slow. Maybe business ethics played a role as well. Maybe not.

Jasper_ 4y ago

It was common to see viruses spread by someone sending an executable attachment called "amazon.com" or similar and have people click the link to open it. Most email providers now flat out strip attachments with .com extensions.

pornel 4y ago

It's not a commonly used extension, and it's a dangerous file type, so users shouldn't be opening received .com files either way. OTOH .zip is quite common and has legitimate uses.

xigoi 4y ago
.zip files can also be dangerous. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb

flangola7 4y ago

I have never seen a .com file, do you mean html?

hawski 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.COM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.COM