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Most users nowadays don't even know what file extension is .

I've heard horror stories of recent generations not understanding files and directories, or even how to use a search engine.

Tell me if you are using "directories", "cabinets/drawers", "folders" or "collections/projects/groups/vaults" and I can tell about this person's technical background. :-)

I use tables, columns and rows.

Am I DBA, accountant, or data engineer?

You're an interior designer.

Old school HTML coder is close, yes.

You are a wood worker.

You are a monkey, a code monkey.

What about My Briefcase?

What about my Lifestream?

Air-gapped Dropbox for a pre-rsync, pre-ssh world.

My Vault.

Noooo, the memories! As a kid who owned the computer at home, I tried playing with it, moving files to it (I think?), but I never understood what it did or how it worked. Good times where computeres were there to explore!

It doesn't help that Windows has hid file extensions since 7.

Nope. Try 95.

https://nunzioweb.com/misc/show_file_extensions.htm

Ehhh been a lot longer than that, if memory serves.

for executable files, unix has always been rid of file extensions.

(please don't feel the need to point out how you can use more words to say more, that's always true, our goal here is to use less words, no need for extensions to that)

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