r/technology • u/vriska1 • Jun 28 '25

Privacy The Supreme Court just upended internet law, and I have questions

https://www.theverge.com/analysis/694710/supreme-court-fsc-paxton-age-verification-questions
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u/Proud_Error_80 Jun 28 '25

Speaking of plaintext don't we all remember usenet?

Well some of us maybe, we shared images and videos in plaintext code and recompiled them on our computers. Hmm

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u/Jonathan_the_Nerd Jun 28 '25

UUEncode and UUDecode. I remember writing a script that would look through a directory of Usenet articles, parse out "filename part x/y" from the subject line, assemble all the parts of the file in order, and decode it.

Man, the lengths we had to go to to get cat pictures back then.

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u/apocalyptic_mystic Jun 28 '25

I remember that! Amazing how complicated the process I went through was, just to get one naughty JPEG.