Useless: . Avi

useless.avi is not a bug. It is a feature of the human condition. It is the digital footprint of our apathy, our curiosity, and our strange desire to label our own trash.

We double-click one last time. The screen goes black. The audio crackles with static. And for three seconds, we are back in 2002, sitting in a dark room, waiting for a video to load that we didn't really need to see in the first place. useless . avi

Long live the useless. Do you have a useless.avi story? Or did you just delete one without looking back? Tell us in the comments. useless

In an age of terabyte hard drives and 4K streaming, we obsess over optimization. We tag our photos, meticulously name our spreadsheets, and backup our "Final_Final_v3" documents to the cloud. Yet, lurking in the forgotten corners of our external hard drives and dusty USB sticks, there is a file type that defies all logic: useless.avi . We double-click one last time