This is the most absurd thing I've heard this month. The page you are looking at right now is in fact an image that your computer put on screen. However, that

This is the most absurd thing I've heard this month. The page you are looking at right now is in fact an image that your computer put on screen. However, that fact does not help you when you want to reply to my comment. Or more generally, if you want to edit, transform, store, compress, search. I can easily search 1GB of text on my computer for a specific pattern. I could not even store all that information directly encoded as (say) raster or vector graphics.