Media Types

Originally, media types were introduced for email messaging.

Ned Freed, Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types, RFC 2046, November 1996. rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2046

Media types were used as values for the Content-Type MIME header and were called MIME types.

Both top-level type and subtype names are case-insensitive.

application:

Types for discrete data that do not fit under any of the other type names, and particularly for data to be processed by some type of application program.
audio
font
image
message, multipart:
- Composite types; that is, they provide a means of encapsulating zero or more objects, each one a separate media type.
model:
- Electronically exchangeable behavioral or physical representations within a given domain (for example, 3D models).
text:
- Many subtypes of text define a charset parameter.
video

Each subtype is registered into a specific registration tree.

The name of the subtype carries information about the tree it belongs to.
- Subtype names that begin with a tree. prefix belong to that tree.

The remaining part of the subtype name after the '+' character (if present).

Neural Nonsense