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Whats a fun fact about computers that isn't secretly not-fun?

You can unzip a .docx or .pptx file, and find all the images inside at their original sizes and resolutions

8/3/26, 1:28 am59 reposts233 likes

I thought this was well known when the -x formats came out, but maybe just because of my relationship with .zip files.

There’s a baby born every day who hasn’t seen The Flintstones

Yeah, After I wrote that it occurred to me that at this point the majority of people have only ever used the 'new' formats for Office 🤷‍♂️

Bam-Bam!

What

Same with .CAB and .JAR files

XML wrapped in a 35 year old compression format invented for use on dialup bulletin boards. Surely there is treasure inside.

I use this basically every week at work!

!!!! Wat

gtfo what