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the polite fiction that your data lives somewhere tidy.
means a named, addressable chunk of data your computer agrees to remember and retrieve on request.
from from the latin filum, meaning thread — clerks once literally strung papers on a wire to keep them in order, and the metaphor outlived the wire by centuries.
no foldersfilesystems fake folders with path strings, not real containers.
deletion mythdeleting just unlinks the name, data lingers unseen.
everything is oneunix treats disks, printers, even memory as files.