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Without looking it up, do you know what jpeg stands for?

Ben Halpern on April 18, 2024

Open for the answer... jpeg stands for... Joint Photographic Experts Group I bet you didn't know that. Here is the Wikipedia on th...
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Matt Ryan

Do I Look Like I Know What a JPEG is?
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Ben Halpern

🤣

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Nabil Alamin

Because of iCarly, I know EG(experts group) from MPEG.

Wonder how many people got that reference.

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Eckehard

I suppose, there was not enough space for experts, so they renamed it to JPG.

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Ben Halpern

The experts got squeezed out

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Eckehard

That´s why they call it a "lossy" compression...

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Ben Halpern

lol

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Nicholas Stimpson

Yes. I've no idea why I know though.

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Vincent A. Cicirello

I knew it was the name of the committee that developed it. But there was no chance that I'd remember the name of that committee.

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Paul

Jraphics photos excellent graphics

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Tyler V. (he/him)

I absolutely did not 😂

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Damian Cyrus

The longer name for .jpg files. ;)

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Schemetastic (Rodrigo) • Edited

Just Pixels Exactly Glued? It has to be, isn't it???

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Never mind, I already saw the answer.

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lionel-rowe

ACTUALLY it's pronounced g-peg 🤓

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Best Codes • Edited

Haha did not know that.
I know SVG…
(Scalable Vector Graphics)
GIF
(Graphics Interchange Format)
And a couple of others.

What about web prefixes like HTTPS and WSS? Or code abbreviations like HTML, CSS, or JS?
(Most of those are easy)

Thanks for the post, it was fun.

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Ben Halpern

Yeah I was sure the G stood for Graphics

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Renan Ferro

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Randy Maloney

Joint Photographic Experts Group 😎