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> your file was in 100 pieces, and if you lost one of them, you were just fucked. That is, until Parchives were invented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchi

by rtsil 3y ago

> your file was in 100 pieces, and if you lost one of them, you were just fucked. That is, until Parchives were invented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive

tptacek 3y ago
By the time anybody knew what this was, Usenet was already fucked.
u801e 3y ago
And the yEncoding scheme also got rid of the 33% data size overhead inherent in base64 encoding. It's too bad that never made it over to email.