Just saw on Titus Tech Talk that torrents are last decade, and newsgroups is where it’s at for this stuff. Of course he didn’t elaborate, so I need some help here.
What is he talking about, and what are these groups that can I enter er, avoid?
Just saw on Titus Tech Talk that torrents are last decade, and newsgroups is where it’s at for this stuff. Of course he didn’t elaborate, so I need some help here.
What is he talking about, and what are these groups that can I enter er, avoid?
Back in the day, people shared files on usenet news, which was similar to the forums you’re seeing on Lemmy or Reddit.
You’d take a file, image, video, whatever, and turn it into text via a program called uuencode.
Text size posting limits often meant having to split the image into multiple text pieces all marked (1/34, 2/34, etc.)
The person downloading the file would then need to stitch all the pieces together, in order, making one large text file, then use uudecode to turn it back into a usable file.
Here’s a sample of what a uuencoded file looked like: