[eqmvii]

Yep! It’s all just text files. Lots of acronyms in top of lots of ways to generate, send, and read structured text files.

One day I realized even databases were just text files and I had to sit down.

[inigyou]

There are also many binary files. Most databases are binary files which are wide trees of some kind (e.g. B-trees, B+trees)