.aif/.aiff | An audio file. |
| .asp | Active Server Page: A standard developed by Microsoft that allows the content
of a web page to be customized for the user viewing it. |
| .au | An audio file originally developed for UNIX. |
| .avi | A video file format developed by Microsoft. |
| .gif | Graphics Interchange Format: A graphics file format developed by
Compuserve. |
| .gz | A file compressed with the gzip program. |
| .jpg/.jpeg | A graphics file format developed by the Joint Photographics Experts group. |
| .la/.lma | Netscape Packetized Audio: An audio file. |
| .mid/.midi | Musical Instruments Digital Interface: An audio file format. |
| .mov | Quicktime video file format developed by Apple. |
| .mpg/.mpeg | A video file format developed by the Motion Picture Experts Group. |
| .pdf | Adobe's Portable Document Format, otherwise know as an Acrobat file. |
| .ram/.rpm | RealNetwork's Real Audio or Real Video files that tell your browser the location
on the Internet from which to download streaming audio or video content. |
| .shtml | Indicates a web page uses server-side includes (directing the web server to give
an html file special treatment, perhaps by executing a script or including a file):
A technology similar to and predating .asp. |
| .tar.Z | A file compressed using the UNIX tar and compress commands. |
| .vcf | A vCard: Usually attached to an e-mail message. An online business card sent
with e-mail that allows the receiver to automatically import the senders
information into an address book or Personal Information Manager (PIM). |
| .wav | An audio file format developed by Microsoft. |
| .wrl | A VRML file or Virtual Reality Modeling Language: Similar to HTML but
allows for the creation of 3D multimedia "worlds." |
| .zip | A compressed file, the most common Windows-based compression format. |
