Usenet History: How Binaries Took Over Newsgroups

Man, I'm convinced that half of my computer knowledge comes from jumping through the hoops of the early internet to find dirty pictures.

Back in my day, you had to buy a box of parts at the local computer store, put them together, buy a modem, figure out how to install it, find a local BBS that provided internet, install and configure Trumpet Winsock, get a usenet reader, script it to download the Base64 encoded data, write another program to combine the parts and decode it.

Now a kid gets an iPad and types "boobs".