[HN Gopher] FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994)
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       FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994)
        
       Author : Lammy
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2024-05-26 20:04 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (pcmicro.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (pcmicro.com)
        
       | quercusa wrote:
       | It has been many years since I've seen a Compuserve ID.
        
       | Joker_vD wrote:
       | > (The extension of "DIZ" actually stands for "Description In
       | Zip")
       | 
       | Ah, finally, another puzzlement from my childhood explained.
        
         | fullstop wrote:
         | As a kid, I always assumed that it was "description" but in
         | some other language which I was unfamiliar with.
        
           | spitfire wrote:
           | Leetspeak. As a kid, you should have known leetspeak.
        
             | bytearray wrote:
             | Um, I think you mean 1337
        
               | Scotrix wrote:
               | not to be mistaken with 31337 ;-)
        
             | dylan604 wrote:
             | Yes, but which color book was this term first used? Then
             | we'll establish how l337 you are or are not
        
               | fragmede wrote:
               | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U9MI0u2VIE
               | 
               | https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/10997/
               | wer...
               | 
               | great scene.
        
         | BennyH26 wrote:
         | Same here. This is the first thing I looked up when I saw the
         | article.
        
         | drbig wrote:
         | Indeed!
        
       | dave84 wrote:
       | Still actively used for releases in the demoscene.
        
       | bluedino wrote:
       | Was there a standard filename for the little ANSI art file?
       | 
       | Remember reading this text file so long ago
        
         | colejohnson66 wrote:
         | .NFO[0] files?
         | 
         | [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nfo
        
       | AdamH12113 wrote:
       | Pedantic note: This appears to be a text file that was improperly
       | converted to HTML. The body contains text in angle brackets that
       | is not visible when viewing in a web browser, mainly the <ASP>
       | mark for the Association of Shareware Professionals. You can
       | properly see the original text by viewing the page source.
        
       | csense wrote:
       | I saw plenty of FILE_ID.DIZ's back in the day. Interesting bit of
       | history to find out more! (Even decades after it's become
       | irrelevant)
        
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