Once you got a svgalib image viewer, it didn't really matter a lot. For newcomers, a similar experience would be using the framebuffer and running slrn against

Once you got a svgalib image viewer, it didn't really matter a lot. For newcomers, a similar experience would be using the framebuffer and running slrn against the NNTP servers from https://www.eternal-september.org https://www.eternal-september.org, using IRC (still alive too) and using trickle to throttle down your connection to 56k or ISDN speeds if you were lucky. Oh, an MUDs, of course. Today you can get a similar feeling with http://wiby.me http://wiby.me with tons of personal sites.