Images were “bad” because browsers were all text based at the time. Adding images meant having to create a “graphical“ web browser ( wasteful in the minds of so

Images were “bad” because browsers were all text based at the time. Adding images meant having to create a “graphical“ web browser ( wasteful in the minds of some at the time ) and meant not being able to read all web pages with full fidelity with your text based browser of choice ( every single web user at the time ). This was back in the days when people were using their terminal program in Windows to Telnet into the UNIX server at school / work to browse the web ( in text ) after all. People using the World Wide Web were probably using things like Veronica and Gopher just as much. Also, if you are connecting over a modem, images would slow things down. I do not remember too much resistance though. Mosaic was a revolution ( literally ).