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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 defini
by tmtvl 4y ago
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.
- lttlrck 4y agoI 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.