Acronym soup for
Data Storage

The recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium.

A simple file format used to store tabular data, such as a spreadsheet or database, in plain text.

A bitmap image format that supports both animated and static images, commonly used for simple graphics and short animations.

The standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.

A commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for photographs.

A file format developed by Adobe for presenting documents, including text and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

A raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression, commonly used for images on the web.

A markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.