Why did base64 win against uuencode? – retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

From the the two methods of encoding 8-bit data as human-readable ASCII, for a time, uuencode format was more popular. USENET 'binaries' groups were filled with uuencoded posts with whatever goodies ...

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