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Long filenames were introduced in Windows 95. It was done by means of an extension to the filesystem (VFAT). The long filenames were preserved when you copied it to another computer but didn’t show up when you used older DOS versions.

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cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
MICROS~1

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- JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  C:\PROGRA~1
  
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- xylol@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  This looks like what teams does to any lengthy URL which breaks it
  
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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I wonder if that’s why computers started using longer words and phrases for programs. The grumpy old man that lives in my in head gets ranting during these moments.

“Back in my day all we had were short names like startup, system, and exit. Now it’s all control panel, system settings, hardware managers. And apps! They’re called them executables!”

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