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