Why do .jpg and .jpeg both exist?
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The part after the period used to tell the computer what kind of file it was and how to process it. The standard was three letters. Jpg stands for joint picture experts group, the organization that created the jpeg standard. The acronym jpeg didn’t fit that requirement so it was shortened to jpg. Modern operating systems use meta data within the file to know how to handle the file.
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