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Probably email attachment

• justinator 4y ago
  Bingo. The phone could send a mixed text and image message as a multipart MIME message. I made an email forward that piped to a Perl script. That Perl script read the text and image data using something like MIME::Parser, and saved that stuff in a database. Another script read that data and returned some HTML using Template Toolkit and CGI.pm. Really just something I threw together the night before I left. I remember a few years later someone was showing me how you could text a message to a specific number, then it showed up on this "Twitter" site and that seemed quaint. Anyways Perl was so easy and fun some Painting and Drawing undergrad could throw something together that was that useful to his 5 friends and his completely confused professor (and pay for art school hacking on other stuff too).