Are JPGs and JPEGs the same?
Or something completely different?
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Not all image file formats are made equal.
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In fact, many of them were created to address a problem that an already-existing format could not resolve.
The JPEG, for instance, came about because image file sizes were eating up way too much storage space.
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Believe it or not, the JIF, JPEG, and JPG file extensions more or less refer to the same thing.
To understand why the file format has so many names, we need to unravel a little bit of convoluted history.