> Do you also wonder what it gets us to be able to inline pictures in webpages?
Back when Geocities was a thing, I often regretted that fact, yes.
But at least the rest of the web page isn't as limited. In the context of an advanced layout engine, images make much more sense. You also have more options for interactivity, like e.g. resizing/zooming.
In an Oberon-ish interface where the image would be a more general object, an "image" teletype could probably propser better than if you just squeeze pixels into a character raster. Which always reminds me of some of the hacks one did with 8 bit computers.
And yeah, I've played with terminal emulators that could do this. In a shell session, "cat"-ing an image is only rarely enough, so I'll have to go to the image viewer anyway.
Back when Geocities was a thing, I often regretted that fact, yes.
But at least the rest of the web page isn't as limited. In the context of an advanced layout engine, images make much more sense. You also have more options for interactivity, like e.g. resizing/zooming.
In an Oberon-ish interface where the image would be a more general object, an "image" teletype could probably propser better than if you just squeeze pixels into a character raster. Which always reminds me of some of the hacks one did with 8 bit computers.
And yeah, I've played with terminal emulators that could do this. In a shell session, "cat"-ing an image is only rarely enough, so I'll have to go to the image viewer anyway.