But .txt is not the same as .rs; yet .txt is not the same as .docx, although both of these files look the same to the human eye.

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    2 hours ago

    no, nice take though

    so you’re right that text, audio and video are important data types. if you look at peripheral devices of computers, you can find: keyboard, printers, microphone, speakers, camera, screen. they put text / audio / video data in / out of the computer. so there’s that

    however, internally, databases are incredibly important. basically everything inside the computer is organized in databases if it’s not some media that’s displayed to the user directly. therefore, a lot of files are database files (sqlite3 files mostly). they’re tabular data and you can watch them with sqlite3 command line program.