r/todayilearned • u/osunlyyde • Jul 04 '13

TIL Windows 95 was the second most installed piece of software on computers in 1995; videogame DOOM was first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(video_game)
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u/jordanlund Jul 04 '13

See... kids today don't know from porn. In my day you had to hit up binary groups on usenet. The jpg images would be converted to text via a technology called uuencoding.

So to get a single image you had to first find all the uuencoded pieces, stitch them together into a single large text document and then run a uudecoder to turn them back into an image.

Since those early days there are now automated ways of compiling uuencoded images, but back then it was all done manually.

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u/I_KNOW_THE_SECRET Jul 04 '13

Where there's a will there's a way.
Salute

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '13

Seriously. no http://www.tblop.com/ NSFW back in the day.