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rtsil on June 5, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why did Usenet fail?

> 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

u801e on June 6, 2023 | [–]

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.

tptacek on June 5, 2023 | [–]

By the time anybody knew what this was, Usenet was already fucked.

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