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by err4nt 3711 days ago
JPEG is an acronym for “Joint Photographics Experts Group”. So I guess “JPEG” refers to a collection of humans. They specified an image format also called JPEG, which has been implemented as the JPEG file format, whose filename suffix is “.jpg”
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What I'm saying is that at no point was I confused about what they were trying to communicate, so as far as I'm concerned it makes no difference outside of just being pedantic.