> There were a few web interfaces, but apart from the hatred the old Usenet users had for web users, there were technical difficultiers that were never overcome.
To expand upon this a bit it wasn't all just knee jerk elitism. Some web clients were terrible and did terrible things.
WebTV in particular would add animated gif backgrounds and MIDI music. Since Usenet was a text medium those messages would have the gif and midi encoded as text (UUENCODEd?) and added to the post, with a bunch of raw HTML as well. Other users got huge amounts of HTML and uuencoded "stuff" or they got animated backgrounds and MIDI music - either one was pretty awful.
To expand upon this a bit it wasn't all just knee jerk elitism. Some web clients were terrible and did terrible things.
WebTV in particular would add animated gif backgrounds and MIDI music. Since Usenet was a text medium those messages would have the gif and midi encoded as text (UUENCODEd?) and added to the post, with a bunch of raw HTML as well. Other users got huge amounts of HTML and uuencoded "stuff" or they got animated backgrounds and MIDI music - either one was pretty awful.