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 f

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.