Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Early hacking...

It was 1986, the internet was still an embryo. On my campus we had the ability to send email--no ftp or file transfer was available except for direct modem to modem pay per minute charges on 56K.

So I wrote a program in PASCAL to convert any binary file to ASCII, and sent my files as email. The recipient just had to have the ASCII to binary converter and it was a done deal. Now whether all that was really necessary is a different question.