READ.ME just looks cool, same thing as with internet domains.
Edit: I even remember seeing this somewhere as a child and admiring how clever it was (Commander Keen maybe?).
And the capitalization thing in this case is of course also a DOS thing (as opposed to the newer traditions pointed out by another comment.
Tangent: on DOS and Windows, filenames without a file extension suffix were just weird. I mostly expected them to contain binary data :D
http://read.me/ I'm not interested, but it definitely looks cool
READ.ME just looks cool, same thing as with internet domains.
Edit: I even remember seeing this somewhere as a child and admiring how clever it was (Commander Keen maybe?).
And the capitalization thing in this case is of course also a DOS thing (as opposed to the newer traditions pointed out by another comment.
Tangent: on DOS and Windows, filenames without a file extension suffix were just weird. I mostly expected them to contain binary data :D