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:

If you own a home, your address is already a matter of public record.

He’s going to be surprised at just how many people are OK not owning Ubisoft games…

True, what I’m saying is, it likely wasn’t a case of a mod idly browsing and taking offense at it, it was probably reported.

Likely not just a case of a mod removing it because they didn’t like it, but someone reporting it to the mods requiring them to deal with it.

Who hurt Julia Roberts?