Mary Quant, ‘60s designer who invented the miniskirt, dead at 93

Re:Mary Quant, ‘60s designer who invented the miniskirt, dea... by tmtvl on Thursday April 13, 2023 @04:28PM (#35561620)

30 years ago, 1993... isn't that when Bill Clinton's inauguration was live streamed over the internet? Or was that '97? ...either way, the internet was definitely up and coming around then.

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Re:Mary Quant, ‘60s designer who invented the miniskirt, dea... by lttlrck on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:15PM (#35562861)

I don't know about Bill, but in '93 I was downloading porn (and genuinely useful information) in the university lab from mainly academic sites.

For reasons I forget we could not use ftp. The workaround was telnet in, cat meow.jpg | uuencode. Then copy the terminal output to a text editor, save and uudecode it open in xview. And wait for the jpeg to decode, line by line...

All this on glorious HP PA-RISC workstations.

The intervening years have been simplifying the access to information from NCSA mosaic to ChatGPT today. Amazing to watch it happen.

But I will never forget the magic of uuencode.

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