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TIL that 'asdf' is a proposed replacement data format for astronomical images and other scientific data (en.wikipedia.org)

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I mashed my keyboard and that Wikipedia article came up.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Tagged Image File Format

It was created before creativity was discovered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Was it used by fax machines?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I don't know about fax machines but a lot of scanners used it. You can also have multi-page .tiff files of lossless images, though they're generally huge files.