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In the 90’s the most interesting images could be found in NNTP (News or USENET) groups (alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage, alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pantyhose, etc.) You did not need a web-server, just “uuencode” an image, split the result by 30KB, and post the pieces by mail with subjects like “bondage-life-latex-234.jpg [1/5]”, “bondage-life-latex-234.jpg [2/5]”, etc. I wrote a shell script to do that automatically.
To download an image you needed a news-reader (I used “tin” – ASCII mode only, no frills). You would download all the pieces (remember, there were no previews, so you had to rely on the descriptions, for example, “bound and gagged girl dresses in latex – Bondage Life magazine scan”). Then strip the headers and concatenate all parts together in the proper sequence, then “uudecode” to get the original binary file. Some files were corrupted, what meant lost time, lost hope and anticipation transformed into disappointment and frustration.
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