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Do you know why Web pages end in different extensions?

posted April 17, 2007 - 12:32am
Do you know why Web pages end in different extensions?

When the Web started, it ran almost exclusively on UNIX machines and all pages were static. Html was the standard file extension. When people started using PCs running DOS or Windows as Web servers, however, the four letters in "html" were problematic.


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