Usenet had avatars: XFaces https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XfacesSupport https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XfacesSupport I remember them being used by some Usen

Usenet had avatars: XFaces https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XfacesSupport https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XfacesSupport I remember them being used by some Usenet posters in the 1990s.