>> Thirdly was the user interface. Usenet looked dull. In a world of animated GIFs and MySpace colour schemes, Usenet didn't even have avatar images! https://e

>> Thirdly was the user interface. Usenet looked dull. In a world of animated GIFs and MySpace colour schemes, Usenet didn't even have avatar images! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face I think there was even a color version of x-face? Oh yeah, found it. A 48x48 base64 encoded PNG image. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusFace https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusFace I don't know what other Usenet clients supported that. The x-face header was already not widely supported.