[Thoreandan]

There's been prior art, I was immediately reminded of Ascii85

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-to-text_encoding#Encodi...

Incidentally every Windows desktop now has UUENCODE built in

  C:\>dir > %TEMP%\foo && tar -cf - --format shardump %TEMP%\foo

Finally I can extract those usenet archives. :)