[asymptosis]

Sorry if it came across as a put down. I was more questioning the use of language around calling people ignorant for not knowing how base64 works.

I thought if you're older than 16 (even in their 40s like I am), being called 16 again could just amuse you. After all, it's not really relevant to my point.

My point is: we all start somewhere. Think twice before belittling the ignorant; either educate them or ignore them.

Where are you putting your self value if you belittle the ignorant while doing nothing to uplift them?

[bellyfullofbac]

Point taken, although Base64 feels "easy", the guy's "About Me" says he's in uni doing computer science, IMO he should've learnt a bit of history of how some systems were only ASCII-compatible and mangled the 8th bit, etc. But "shoulds" are subjective, obviously.

True about ignorance, if you asked me, I don't know how GZIP works (I skimmed through the explanation, it looked hard, I didn't bother with it further), although recently I learned how the JPEG compression works (with discrete cosine transformations), and yeah, to agree with you, that's more than 2 decades after I started tinkering with computers.