# Attachments helped email go global

<https://buttondown.com/blog/email-attachments-history>

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## What Jamie wrote

I loved this walk down memory lane with email, and a great history too. MIME types, `uuencode`, and mountains of RFCs for the win. I was at the tail end of it but I did plenty of USENET downloads with `uudecode` to get binary files off the nascent Internet well before the web.

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- [WT318: Weekly Thing 318 / Sycophancy, Rollerblades, Yoga](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/318/), Briefly

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