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		themerone on July 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: People forget that you can stick any data... Base 64 is slightly more space efficient. Other than that it's just more popular and better supported.

vram22 on July 5, 2023 [–]

Got it, thanks.

Yes, uuencode / uudecode are probably older too.

They are from the uucp dialup comms era of networking.

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